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:
“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child’s duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,—the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man’s treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)