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:
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, “Go to sleep by yourselves.” And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.””
—James Thurber (1894–1961)