English-Italian translations for refined

• raffinato
  Questa proposta, nell’insieme, rappresenta il passaggio ad un approccio più sofisticato e raffinato alla vigilanza e alla gestione dei rischi. This proposal represents a move to an altogether more sophisticated and refined approach to supervision and risk management.
  Lei ha spiegato come la Corte abbia raffinato ancor più le sue procedure di revisione contabile, ed è uno sviluppo di cui ci rallegriamo vivamente. You have described how the Court has refined its auditing techniques still further, and this is something we very much welcome.
  Il 75 per cento di tutto il cadmio raffinato viene utilizzato nelle pile, ma si tratta in realtà di una piccola percentuale della quantità totale di cadmio. Seventy-five per cent of all refined cadmium is, in actual fact, used in batteries. This is a small portion of the total amount of cadmium.

Definition of refined

• Precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
• Cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, ''particularly:''
• Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum
• The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form

Examples

• The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
• The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
• The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
• In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
• Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
• Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
• The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Baals portrait they bore highly refined silver.
• Were still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.

Related words

• refine
• refinery
• refiner
• biorefinery
• refinement
• unrefined
• hydrorefine
• refined petrol
• oil refinery