enhancer

Variant of enhance

transitive verb enhanced, enhancing

  1. to make greater, as in cost, value, attractiveness, etc.; heighten; augment
  2. to improve the quality or condition of
  3. to improve electronically the quality or clarity of (a photograph or other image) as by means of a computer

Origin: ME enhauncen < Anglo-Fr enhauncer < OFr enhaucier < VL *inaltiare < in-, en- + *altiare, to raise < L altus, high

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