elaboration
nounEtymology From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- 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,[…].2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
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
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics 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.
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences The level of processing of a message or argument.
- Derived terms
- counterelaboration, overelaboration