Elaboration

Quick meaning: Elaboration is a noun meaning The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
2. 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
3. (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.
4. (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.

Example Sentences

the elaboration of food into chyme

the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues

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,[…].

Word Forms

• elaborations

Synonyms for elaboration

Depending on context, synonyms include intricacy, refinement, amplification, elaborateness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amplification, intricacy, refinement, put, placing, production.

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