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Wikipedia / Uplift

Uplift may refer to:

Science

Geology

  • Orogeny, also known as geologic uplift, a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin

  • Tectonic uplift, the geologic uplift of Earth's surface attributed to plate tectonics

  • Epeirogenic movement, isostatic uplift or sinking of land

  • Uplift mountains, the result of orogeny

  • Llano Uplift, a geologic dome in Texas, United States

  • Nemaha Uplift, or Nemaha Ridge, a buried structural zone in the central United States

Astrophysics

  • Star lifting, also known as stellar uplift, the theoretical prospect of moving a stellar mass

Business

  • Uplift factor, or simply "uplift", adjustments to employee benefits

  • Uplift modelling, in marketing campaigns, the difference in response rate between a treated group and a randomized control group

  • Uplift enterprise computer access to heightened security protocols.

Entertainment

Uplift (science fiction), upgrading the capacities of a species or a civilization

Other uses