elaboration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: elaboration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for elaboration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaboration n addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed" Synonym(s): amplification, elaboration the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique" Synonym(s): refinement, elaboration a discussion that provides additional information Synonym(s): expansion, enlargement, elaboration marked by elaborately complex detail Synonym(s): elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution developing in intricate and painstaking detail Synonym(s): elaboration, working out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elaboration \Elab`ora"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F. [82]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.