Treatment may refer to:
- Treatment, therapy used to remedy a health problem
- Treatment, a process or intervention in the design of experiments
- Treatment group, a collection of items or individuals given the same treatment in an experiment
- Water treatment
- Sewage treatment
- Surface treatment or surface finishing, processes used to improve the surface of a manufactured item
- National treatment, economic term for the principle that foreigners and domestic nationals are treated equally
- Film treatment, prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay
- In the card game bridge, a treatment is the meaning associated with a natural bid as distinct from a conventional bid
Famous quotes containing the word treatment:
“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It’s better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them when they’re 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn’t have to put them in prisons?”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“If the study of all these sciences, which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)