Enrichment may refer to:
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Behavioral enrichment, the practice of providing animals under managed care with stimuli such as natural and artificial objects
* Data enrichment, appending or enhancing data with relevant context from other sources, see
data management
Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource.
Concept
The concept of data management arose in the 1980s as technology moved from sequential processing (first punched cards, then magnetic tape) to r ...
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Enrichment factor Enrichment factor is used to describe bodies of mineral ore. It is defined as the minimum factor by which the weight percent of mineral in an orebody is greater than the average occurrence of that mineral in the Crust (geology), Earth's crust. It ca ...
, used to describe bodies of mineral ore
* Enrichment in
education: activities outside the formal curriculum, or an extra program for the most able students
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Environmental enrichment, how the brain is affected by the stimulation of its information processing provided by its surroundings
* 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
* The process of enhancing breathing gas for scuba diving (e.g. in
Enriched Air Nitrox).
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Job enrichment, improving work processes and environments so they are more satisfying for employees
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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
Centrus Energy Corp. (formerly USEC Inc.) is an American company that supplies nuclear fuel for use in nuclear power plants and works to develop and deploy advanced centrifuge technology to produce enriched uranium for commercial and government use ...
, a manufacturer of enriched uranium
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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
The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble is a musical group based at the Enrichment Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina formed from adults with developmental disabilities and professional musicians. It was founded in 1997 by
director Aaron Ba ...
from the Enrichment Centre in Winston-Salem NC
* The
Living Enrichment Center
Living Enrichment Center (LEC) was a New Thought organization and retreat center in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was founded in the farmhouse of senior minister Mary Manin Morrissey of Scholls, Oregon, in the mid-1970s; the church moved to a 94, ...
, a church in Portland, Oregon
* The notion of
enriched category in mathematics
* The analysis of gene product annotations using
GO Term Enrichment
Gene Ontology (GO) term enrichment is a technique for interpreting sets of genes making use of the Gene Ontology system of classification, in which genes are assigned to a set of predefined bins depending on their functional characteristics. For ...
in biology
* The use of an
enrichment culture, to select for the growth of a particular microorganism
* The
paradox of enrichment
The paradox of enrichment is a term from population ecology coined by Michael Rosenzweig in 1971. He described an effect in six predator–prey models where increasing the food available to the prey caused the predator's population to destabiliz ...
, a principle of ecology where an abundance of prey tends to destabilize the predator population
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