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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elaboration \E*lab'o*ra"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elaboration
noun
1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed" [syn: {amplification}]
2: the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique" [syn: {refinement}]
3: a discussion that provides additional information [syn: {expansion}, {enlargement}]
4: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness}, {intricacy}, {involution}]
5: developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn: {working out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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