Elaboration
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English
Noun
Elaboration (plural Elaborations)- 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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Adjectives
ingenious; quaintest; ridiculous; polychronic; productive.
Thesaurus
accomplishment, adjunct, adornment, advance, advancement, amplification, architecture, arrangement, assembly, beautification, blossoming, building, casting, color, color patterns, composition, construction, conversion, copy, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, critique, cultivation, decor, decoration, development, developmental change, devising, dilation, dwelling upon, embellishment, emblazonment, emblazonry, embroidery, enlargement, erection, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, expatiation, explication, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, flourish, flower arrangement, flowering, formation, forming, formulation, framing, furniture arrangement, furtherance, garnish, garnishment, garniture, going over, gradual change, growing, growth, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, illumination, iteration, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, maturation, milling, mining, molding, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ornament, ornamentation, perfection, practicing, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, progress, progression, raising, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, recountal, recounting, refinement, refining, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, ripening, rise, seasoning, shaping, smelting, summary, summing up, trim, trimming, unfolding, window dressing, working-out, workmanship
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
