elaboration
/ɪlˌæbɚˈeɪʃən/
Frequency: 2.82 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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.
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noun
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.
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Example Sentences
- "Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]."
- "the elaboration of food into chyme"
- "the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues"