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elaboration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:
2. (countable, uncountable) 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 chyle, or sap, or tissues
   • the elaboration of food into chyme
3. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, uncountable) The level of processing of a message or argument.

Forms

Deriveds

counterelaboration · elaborational · overelaboration

Translations (8)

es elaboración (natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order) · fi kehittely (act or process of producing or refining with labor) · es elaboración (act or process of producing or refining with labor) · bg преработване (natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order) · fi muokkaaminen (natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order) · fi työstäminen (act or process of producing or refining with labor) · nl uitwerking (act or process of producing or refining with labor) · fi tuotanto (natural process of formation or assimilation by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order)