Thesaurus: elaboration

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1. n. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. n. 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.
3. n. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
4. n. the result of improving something
5. n. a discussion that provides additional information
6. n. marked by elaborately complex detail
7. n. developing in intricate and painstaking detail
8. 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.
9. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed bythe living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crudesubstance is changed into something of a higher order; as, theelaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, ortissues.
10. n:100 n. developing in intricate and painstaking detail