What does "elaboration" mean?

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Elaboration

Common synonyms include: amplification, expansion, refinement, accomplishment, adjunct, adornment.

noun

noun ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level

Noun

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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,[…]."
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developing in intricate and painstaking detail wordnet
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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"
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addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail wordnet
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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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marked by elaborately complex detail wordnet
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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
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a discussion that provides additional information wordnet
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The level of processing of a message or argument. countable, uncountable
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the result of improving something wordnet