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Enrichment

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Enrichment may refer to:

  • Enrichment in education: activities outside the formal curriculum, or an extra program for the most able students
  • The process of adding nutrients to cereals or grain, see food fortification
  • The process of adding sugar to grape must during winemaking in order to achieve a higher alcohol content of the wine, more commonly referred to as chaptalization
  • Behavioral enrichment, the practice of providing animals under managed care with stimuli such as natural and artificial objects
  • Environmental enrichment, how the brain is affected by the stimulation of its information processing provided by its surroundings
  • The process of enhancing breathing gas for scuba diving (e.g. in Enriched Air Nitrox).
  • Job enrichment, improving work processes and environments so they are more satisfying for employees
  • Nuclear enrichment, the process of increasing the Uranium-235 content of nuclear fuel in preparation for nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons
  • Unjust enrichment, in civil law, a term for someone who has benefitted another party with the expectation of compensation, but who has not been justly compensated
  • The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble from the Enrichment Centre in Winston-Salem NC
  • The Living Enrichment Center, a church in Portland, Oregon
  • The notion of enriched category in mathematics
  • The analysis of gene product annotations using GO Term Enrichment in biology
  • The use of an enrichment culture, to select for the growth of a particular microorganism
  • The paradox of enrichment, a principle of ecology where an abundance of prey tends to destabilize the predator population
  • Enrichment factor, used to describe bodies of mineral ore
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