Definition of "elaboration" in English

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

   • the elaboration of food into chyme
   • the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues

3. (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. (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. (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.