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Elaboration
noun
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Noun
- 1 The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. countable, uncountable
"Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]."
- 2 developing in intricate and painstaking detail wordnet
- 3 The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order countable, uncountable
"the elaboration of food into chyme"
- 4 addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail wordnet
- 5 Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy. countable, uncountable
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- 6 marked by elaborately complex detail wordnet
- 7 The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements. countable, uncountable
- 8 a discussion that provides additional information wordnet
- 9 The level of processing of a message or argument. countable, uncountable
- 10 the result of improving something wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.
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