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Definition of Refinement
Refinement

The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.

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Refinement Quotations

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
Niklaus Wirth

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Felix Adler

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard

Refinement Translations

refinement in German is Veredelung, Verfeinerung
refinement in Latin is humanitas
refinement in Spanish is refinamiento


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