smarten
Verb
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Verb
smarten (smartens, present participle smartening; past and past participle smartened)
- (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
- 1998, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Scholastic Corporation, page 114:
- The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
- 1998, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Scholastic Corporation, page 114:
- (transitive) To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
- 2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake (page 264)
- I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
- 2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake (page 264)
- (transitive) To augment with computer technology.
- Synonyms: computerize
- 2008, Roger Neeson Anderson, Albert Boulanger, John A. Johnson, Computer-aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry (page 335)
- How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
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