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1)used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: civilised  civilised  couth  dainty  debonair  delicate  gentlemanlike  ladylike  elegant  fastidious  gracious  overrefined  well-bred  polished  unrefined 
 
2)freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
    Synonyms :processed 
    See Also: crude 
 
3)showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
    Synonyms :polished svelte urbane 
    See Also: sophisticated 
 
4)made pure
    Synonyms :purified sublimate 
    See Also: pure 
 
5)suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
    Synonyms :elegant graceful 
    See Also: gracious 
 
6)free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
    Synonyms :neat tasteful 
    See Also: elegant 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. "Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at Kestrel Institute", D.R. Smith et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng, SE-11(11) (1985). E-mail: maria@kestrel.edu.

2. Cordell Green et al, Stanford U. Uses logic to specify and evolve programs. [same as 1?] Reasoning Systems, Inc. E-mail: help@reasoning.com.








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