In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with 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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