Enrichment

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Enrich may mean:

• Education.
• 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 (neural), 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.
  • The United States Enrichment Corporation, a manufacturer of enriched uranium.
• 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.