About The Word Elaboration
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Elaboration
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Elaboration: amplification | elaborateness | enlargement | expansion | intricacy | involution | refinement | working out Related Terms | Find terms related to Elaboration: accomplishment | adjunct | adornment | advance | advancement | amplification | architecture | arrangement | assembly | beautification | blossoming | building | casting | color | color patterns | composition | construction | conversion | copy | crafting | craftsmanship | creation | critique | cultivation | decor | decoration | development | developmental change | devising | dilation | dwelling upon | embellishment | emblazonment | emblazonry | embroidery | enlargement | erection | evolution | evolutionary change | evolvement | evolving | expansion | expatiation | explication | extraction | fabrication | fashioning | flourish | flower arrangement | flowering | formation | forming | formulation | framing | furniture arrangement | furtherance | garnish | garnishment | garniture | going over | gradual change | growing | growth | handicraft | handiwork | harvesting | illumination | iteration | machining | making | manufacture | manufacturing | maturation | milling | mining | molding | natural development | natural growth | nonviolent change | ornament | ornamentation | perfection | practicing | prefabrication | preparation | processing | producing | progress | progression | raising | reaffirmation | recap | recapitulation | recital | recountal | recounting | refinement | refining | rehash | rehearsal | reissue | reiteration | reprint | restatement | resume | retelling | review | ripening | rise | seasoning | shaping | smelting | summary | summing up | trim | trimming | unfolding | window dressing | working-out | workmanship See Also | advance | betterment | complexity | complexness | development | discourse | discussion | embellishment | embroidery | expanding upon | expansion | expatiation | improvement | treatment Elaboration In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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