elaboration

See also: élaboration

English

From Middle French élaboration.Morphologically elaborate +‎ -ion

elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
  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, […] .
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
the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
(computing) 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.
(electronics) 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.
(psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.[1]

act or process of producing or refining with labor

natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order

computing: setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants

electronics: process of creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive gates and statements

Colman, A. (2008). elaboration. In (Ed.), A Dictionary of Psychology. : Oxford University Press,. Retrieved 9 Sep. 2018, from