"elaboration" meaning in English

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Noun

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 5 7 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 Disambiguation of 'natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order': 6 73 7 12 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, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 13 43 30 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 14 45 25 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 10 10 51 21 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 13 12 47 21 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 10 51 21 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 11 12 53 20 4 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
  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

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