ELABORATION

elaboration, working out

(noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail

amplification, elaboration

(noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; “a few remarks added in amplification and defense”; “an elaboration of the sketch followed”

elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution

(noun) marked by elaborately complex detail

expansion, enlargement, elaboration

(noun) a discussion that provides additional information

refinement, elaboration

(noun) the result of improving something; “he described a refinement of this technique”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

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

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

(computing) 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.

(electronics) 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.

(psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.

Source: Wiktionary

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E*lab`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration.]

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

2. (Physiol.)

Definition: 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; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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