elaboration

Plural: elaborations

Noun

• addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
  • "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
• the result of improving something
• a discussion that provides additional information
• marked by elaborately complex detail
• developing in intricate and painstaking detail
• The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• 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
• 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.
• The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
• The level of processing of a message or argument.

Examples

• the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
• the elaboration of food into chyme

Synonyms

amplification, elaborateness, enlargement, expansion, intricacy, involution, refinement, working out