Hypertext Webster Gateway: "treatment"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
treatment
n 1: care by procedures or applications that are intended to
relieve illness or injury
2: the management of someone or something; "the handling of
prisoners" or "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right
to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" [syn: {handling}]
3: a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his
treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
4: 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" [syn: {discussion}, {discourse}]
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