Improve

Improve means to make something better. It is also used in the names of:

Improved

• Improved clinch knot, a knot
• Most Improved Player (disambiguation), a sports award
• Improved Order of Heptasophs, a fraternal organization established in 1878
• Improved Multi-Band Excitation, a vocoder

Biology

• Emendation (taxonomy), a scientific change to the name of a living organism

Technology

• LNWR Improved Precedent Class, a steam locomotive
• Improved-definition television (IDTV)
• Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing
• Improved Orion, a sounding rocket

Improvement

• Improvement Era, magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1897–1970
• Home improvement, the process of renovating or making additions to a home
• Home Improvement, a 1990s television show
• Airport Improvement Fee
• Natural vision improvement

Government

• Improvement commissioners, a form of government in 18th-century Britain
• Improvement and Development Agency, a British governmental agency established in 1998
• Improvement district (disambiguation)
• Land improvement
• Capital Improvement Plan
• Environmental Quality Improvement Act

Healthcare

• Quality improvement organizations
• The Health Improvement Network, a United Kingdom medical database

Organizational

• Achievement Improvement Monitor, an Australian educational testing system
• Improvement trust
• Ontario Swine Improvement
• Organic Crop Improvement Association
• South Improvement Company, a railroad-oil-related Pennsylvania corporation in the early 1870s
• Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

Business management

• Business Process Improvement
• Continual improvement
• Performance improvement/Performance improvement plan
• Focused improvement
• Quality improvement

Technology

• Network Improvement, in telecommunications
• Preemphasis improvement, in radio
  • FM improvement threshold
  • FM improvement factor
• Improvement Support Systems