treatment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: treatment	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for treatment
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
treatment n care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) Synonym(s): treatment, intervention the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" Synonym(s): treatment, handling a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture" an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" Synonym(s): discussion, treatment, discourse
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Treatment \Treat"ment\, n. [Cf. F. traitement. See {Treat}.] 1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. --Pope.