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:
“Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the opinion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)