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elaboration - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'elaboration' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Elaboration [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'elaboration' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . elaboration [ n]
Meaning (1):
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
Example in sentence:
  • a few remarks added in amplification and defense;
  • an elaboration of the sketch followed
Meaning (2):
- the result of improving something
Example in sentence:
  • he described a refinement of this technique