The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
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
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
E*lab`o*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. elaboratio: cf. F. Ă©laboration.]
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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