See aprimorate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1991 May, Souza, H.V.C. de., Neutron dosimeter utilizing CR-39 (master's thesis), page 6:",
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"text": "As seen previously, with the coarse symbol timing detection it still exists a large timing error, so a further refinement is necessary to aprimorate the symbol timing.",
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