Usually means: Detailed explanation or development process.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word elaboration:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. elaboration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elaboration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elaboration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elaboration: Vocabulary.com
  5. Elaboration, elaboration: Wordnik
  6. elaboration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. elaboration: Wiktionary
  8. elaboration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. elaboration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. elaboration: Dictionary.com
  11. elaboration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Elaboration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Elaboration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. elaboration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. elaboration: Rhymezone
  16. Elaboration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. elaboration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. elaboration: Free Dictionary
  19. elaboration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. elaboration: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elaboration: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elaboration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. elaboration: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elaboration)

noun:  The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
noun:  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
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.

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