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elaboration
(encz) | elaboration,rozpracování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Elaboration
(gcide) | Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F.
['e]laboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor;
improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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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.
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elaboration
(wn) | elaboration
n 1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying
detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense";
"an elaboration of the sketch followed" [syn:
amplification, elaboration]
2: the result of improving something; "he described a refinement
of this technique" [syn: refinement, elaboration]
3: a discussion that provides additional information [syn:
expansion, enlargement, elaboration]
4: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness,
elaboration, intricacy, involution]
5: developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn:
elaboration, working out] |
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