enhancement

enhancement
    n 1: an improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn:
         {enhancement}, {sweetening}]
    

Enhancement \En*hance"ment\, n.
   The act of increasing, or state of being increased;
   augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value,
   price, enjoyments, crime.
   [1913 Webster]
    

enhancement
 n.

   Common {marketroid}-speak for a bug {fix}. This abuse of language is a
   popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into increased
   revenue. A hacker being ironic would instead call the fix a {feature}
   -- or perhaps save some effort by declaring the bug itself to be a
   feature.
    

enhancement

   1. A change to a product which is intended to make it better
   in some way, e.g. new functions, faster, or occasionally more
   compatible with other systems.  Enhancements to {hardware}
   components, especially {integrated circuits} often mean they
   are smaller and less demanding of resources.  Sadly, this is
   almost never true of {software} enhancements.

   2. {Marketroid}-speak for a {bug fix}.  This abuse of language
   is a popular and time-tested way to turn incompetence into
   increased revenue.  A hacker being ironic would instead call
   the fix a {feature}, or perhaps save some effort by declaring
   "{That's not a bug, that's a feature!}".

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1998-04-04)
    

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "enhancement":
      Great Leap Forward, accelerando, acceleration, advance,
      advancement, aggrandizement, aggravation, amelioration, amendment,
      amplification, annoyance, ascent, augmentation, ballyhoo,
      beefing-up, bettering, betterment, big talk, blowing up, blowup,
      boost, burlesque, caricature, complement, concentration,
      condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deepening,
      deliberate aggravation, deterioration, dilatation, dilation,
      embittering, embitterment, enlargement, enrichment, eugenics,
      euthenics, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exasperation,
      excess, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extravagance, extreme,
      furtherance, grandiloquence, headway, heating-up, heightening,
      huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, improvement, increase,
      inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification,
      irritation, lift, magnification, melioration, mend, mending,
      overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overstatement, pickup,
      population explosion, preferment, prodigality, profuseness,
      progress, progression, promotion, provocation, puffery, puffing up,
      recovery, redoubling, reinforcement, restoration, revival, rise,
      sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, step-up,
      strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening,
      touting, travesty, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend,
      upward mobility, worsening