Amelioration
Amelioration may refer to one of the following:
- Amelioration (health) means "to make better" or "to improve upon" most often in context of or in reference to ill health of a person but could also be in reference to healing the land, plant, tree, etc.
- An alternative name for land improvement
- A specific type of semantic change — the introduction of positive connotations or removal of negative ones for a word or expression.
- Amelioration patterns, a software design pattern
- Amelioration Act 1798, a statute enacted in the Leeward Islands regarding the treatment of slaves