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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf F. ['e]laboration.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elaboration n 1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail: "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the idea followed" [syn: {amplification}] 2: the result of improving something "he described a refinement of this technique" [syn: {refinement}] 3: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness}, {intricacy}] 4: developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn: {working out}]
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