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

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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.

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

n. 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

n. The act of elaborating, or working out or producing; production or formation by a gradual process: as, the elaboration of sap by a tree.

n. The act of working out and finishing with great care and exactness in detail; the act of improving or refining by successive processes; painstaking labor.

n. Labored finish or completeness; detailed execution; careful work in all parts: as, the elaboration of the picture is wonderful.

n. the result of improving something

n. a discussion that provides additional information

n. developing in intricate and painstaking detail

n. marked by elaborately complex detail

n. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail

"Further elaboration is needless and comments are unnecessary, we know."

betterment    improvement    advance    development    complexity    complexness    expanding upon    expansion   

elaborateness   

refinement    development    painstaking    perfection    devising   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

refinement    complexity    subtlety    amplification    ornamentation    embellishment    exposition    adornment    thoroughness    modification