Associations to the word «Elaboration»

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

ELABORATION, noun. 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.

ELABORATION, noun. (computing) 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.

ELABORATION, noun. (electronics) 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.

ELABORATION, noun. Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed".

ELABORATION, noun. The result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique".

ELABORATION, noun. A discussion that provides additional information.

ELABORATION, noun. Marked by elaborately complex detail.

ELABORATION, noun. Developing in intricate and painstaking detail.