elaboration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   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,[…].

2. 2
   noun

   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

   the elaboration of food into chyme

3. 3
   noun

   developing in intricate and painstaking detail

4. 4
   noun

   addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail

5. 5
   noun

   marked by elaborately complex detail

6. 6
   noun

   a discussion that provides additional information

7. 7
   noun

   the result of improving something

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.