'Elaboration' definitions:
Definition of 'elaboration'
(from WordNet)
noun
Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed" [syn: amplification, elaboration]
noun
The result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique" [syn: refinement, elaboration]
noun
A discussion that provides additional information [syn: expansion, enlargement, elaboration]
noun
noun
Developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn: elaboration, working out]
Definition of 'Elaboration'
From: GCIDE
- Elaboration \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elaboration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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