elaboration

[e·lab·o·rate]

Elaboration means "adding details." Kids are famous for answering "good" when asked how school was and "nothing" when asked what they did there. If pressed for elaboration, they might talk about recess, lunch, and even what they learned.

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

Noun
developing in intricate and painstaking detail

Noun
addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed"

Noun
marked by elaborately complex detail

Noun
a discussion that provides additional information

Noun
the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique"

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

n.
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.


Elaboration

E*lab`o*ra"tion , n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F. '82laboration.] 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.

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

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Usage Examples

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

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