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Definitions for: Elaboration
[n] developing in intricate and painstaking detail
[n] addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed"
[n] marked by elaborately complex detail
[n] a discussion that provides additional information
[n] the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique"
Webster (1913) Definition: E*lab`o*ra"tion, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F.
['e]laboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor;
improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. (Physiol.) 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.
Synonyms: amplification, elaborateness, enlargement, expansion, intricacy, involution, refinement, working out
See Also: advance, betterment, complexity, complexness, development, discourse, discussion, embellishment, embroidery, expanding upon, expansion, expatiation, improvement, treatment
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