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elaboration

noun

Etymology

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

  1. derived from élaboration

Definitions

  1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor

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

  2. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in…

    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

    • 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…

    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.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a…

      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.

    2. The level of processing of a message or argument.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elaboration. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA