"elaboration" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: elaborations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|élaboration}} Middle French élaboration, {{suffix|en|elaborate|ion|nocat=1}} elaborate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} elaboration (countable and uncountable, plural elaborations)
  1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act or process of producing or refining with labor): uitwerking (Dutch), kehittely (note: of an idea) (Finnish), työstäminen (note: of physical object) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-elaboration-en-noun-Jj7X5wJ0 Disambiguation of 'act or process of producing or refining with labor': 81 6 4 8 2
  2. 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 Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order): преработване (prerabotvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), muokkaaminen (Finnish), tuotanto (Finnish), elaboración [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-elaboration-en-noun-xEX9eqw0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 12 41 35 3 Disambiguation of 'natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order': 6 68 9 14 3
  3. (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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-elaboration-en-noun-hyu29I48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 12 41 35 3 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  4. (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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Electronics
    Sense id: en-elaboration-en-noun-Aw6U~Ezs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 12 41 35 3 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  5. (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-elaboration-en-noun-S87JI-zw Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

Inflected forms

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