Elaboration

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    developing in intricate and painstaking detail wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    marked by elaborately complex detail wordnet
  2. 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
  3. 8
    a discussion that provides additional information wordnet
  4. 9
    The level of processing of a message or argument. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    the result of improving something wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

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