| Pronunciation: | | i`labu'reyshun
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | amplification, elaborateness, enlargement, expansion, intricacy, involution, refinement, working out |
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| | See Also: | | advance, betterment, complexity, complexness, development, discourse, discussion, embellishment, embroidery, expanding upon, expansion, expatiation, improvement, treatment |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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