elaboration

1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. (countable, uncountable)
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 (countable, uncountable) · the elaboration of food into chyme· the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
3. 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. (countable, uncountable)
4. 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. (countable, uncountable)
5. The level of processing of a message or argument. (countable, uncountable)

Plural elaborations