elaboration

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Synonyms: evaporation, enamoration, elaborating, elaborative, elaborations, elastration, elaborator, elaborate on

Antonyms: evaporation, enamoration, elaborating, elaborative, elaborations, elastration, elaborator, elaborate on

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Noun

1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. 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
3. {{lb|en|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.
4. {{lb|en|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.
5. {{lb|en|psychology}} The level of processing of a message or argument.<ref>Colman, A. (2008). elaboration. In (Ed.), A Dictionary of Psychology. : Oxford University Press,. Retrieved 9 Sep. 2018, from [http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199534067.001.0001/acref-9780199534067-e-2676]</ref>

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