elaboration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
    amplification.
    • a few remarks added in amplification and defense
    • an elaboration of the sketch followed
  2. noun the result of improving something
    refinement.
    • he described a refinement of this technique
  3. noun a discussion that provides additional information
    enlargement; expansion.
  4. noun marked by elaborately complex detail
    intricacy; involution; elaborateness.
  5. noun developing in intricate and painstaking detail
    working out.

WordNet

E*lab`o*ra"tion noun
Etymology
L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  2. (Physiol.) 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.

Webster 1913