Definition of Elaboration

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Elaboration

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

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.

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Elaboration Quotations

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Albert Finney

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Trofim Lysenko

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
Harry Seidler

Elaboration Translations

elaboration in French is amplification
elaboration in German is Ausarbeitung {f}
elaboration in Italian is elaborazione
elaboration in Norwegian is utdypning, utarbeidelse

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