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elaboration.

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

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Meaning & usage

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

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  2. 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

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    the elaboration of food into chyme
    the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. The level of processing of a message or argument.

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Where this word comes from

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

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