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upgrade
To replace existing software or hardware with a newer version. See upgradable, update, critical update, bugrade and About this encyclopedia.
upgrade
1. US and Canadian an upward slope
2. US and Canadian going or sloping upwards

upgrade [¦əp¦grād]
(mining engineering)
To increase the commercial value of a coal or mineral product by appropriate treatment.
To increase the quality rating of diamonds beyond or above the rating implied by their particular classification.

1.upgrade - A new or better version of some hardware or software.

Often used in marketroid-speak to mean "bug fix".
2.upgrade - The act of developing or installing a new version.


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The money was to be subtracted from the compensation Caracas owed the IOCs for taking majority stakes in the region's four heavy crude upgraders.
99 Paperback Missing manual series ML74 New York Times tech columnists/co-authors of other books in the Missing Manual series cover the basic and advanced features of the Classic, Nano, Shuffle, and Touch iPods for newbies or upgraders.
Two of the biggest players in the oil sands, Suncor Energy and Petro-Canada, served notice this week they aim to weather tumbling oil prices and the world economic crisis by deferring major expenditures on processing plants called upgraders, which turn the heavy crude from the sands into refinery-ready light oil.
 
 
 
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