0 to make something pure or improve something, especially by removing unwanted material:
2 to improve something or to make it pure, especially by removing material that is not wanted:
Crude oil is industrially refined to purify it.
3 to improve an idea, a method, a system, etc. by making small changes:
The resulting pieces were often recorded, listened to, analysed and sometimes refined.
In particular, special care must be taken to avoid infinite loops bouncing back and forth between refining segments and facets of the input polyhedron.
The things that determine and surround our lives, such as tools, means of transport, the products of science, technology and art, are extremely refined.
A series of environmental indicators was developed and refined by a group of experts during a period of 18 months.
The force field is then refined for a given polypeptide structure in order to match the calculated frequencies with the experiment.
As our investigative techniques become better and more refined we are discovering preclinical tumors of uncertain significance.
Nevertheless, such results cannot be static, and they will evolve as terminology and explanations are refined, new descriptions are added, or formats are changed.
Then, the structure of the ontology was refined and the definitive design was obtained.
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(尤指去除不需要的雜質而)精煉,提煉,提純, 改進, 完善…
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(尤指去除不需要的杂质而)精炼,提炼,提纯, 改进, 完善…
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refinar, perfeccionar…
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refinar, aperfeiçoar…
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~を精製する, ~から不純物を取り除く, ~を改善する…
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arıtmak, saflaştırmak, rafine etmek…
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raffiner, affiner, perfectionner…
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