elaboration
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əˈreɪ noun
1.
an act or instance of elaborating.
2.
the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
3.
something that is elaborated.
4.
Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
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World English Dictionary
| elaborate | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | planned or executed with care and exactness; detailed |
| 2. | marked by complexity, ornateness, or detail |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (intr; |
| 4. | (tr) to work out in detail; develop |
| 5. | (tr) to make more complicated or ornate |
| 6. | (tr) to produce by careful labour; create |
| 7. | (tr) physiol to change (food or simple substances) into more complex substances for use in the body |
| [C16: from Latin ēlabōrāre to take pains, from labōrāre to toil] | |
| e'laborately | |
| —adv | |
| e'laborateness | |
| —n | |
| elabo'ration | |
| —n | |
| elaborative | |
| —adj | |
| e'laborator | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
elaboration
1570s, in a physiological sense relating to tissue development, from L. elaborationem (nom. elaboratio), from elaborare "work out, produce by labor," from ex- "out" + laborare "to labor."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
elaboration e·lab·o·ra·tion (ĭ-lāb'ə-rā'shən)
n.
The process of working out in detail by labor and study.
The mental process occurring partly during dreaming and partly during the recalling or telling of a dream, by means of which the latent content of the dream is brought into increasingly more coherent and logical order, resulting in the manifest content of the dream.
e·lab'o·rate' v.
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Example sentences
Clearly, this is a complex and interesting subject that bears further elaboration and development.
And at other times he piles elaboration upon elaboration until reality is buried under illusions of evaluation.
The above-stated views do need detailed elaboration and may represent an over-simplified picture.
He's yet to return a phone call seeking elaboration.
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