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e⋅lab⋅o⋅ra⋅tion

  [i-lab-uh-rey-shuhn]
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–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, esp. while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.
Origin:
1570–80; < L ēlabōrātiōn- (s. of ēlabōrātiō), equiv. to ēlabōrāt- (see elaborate ) + -iōn- -ion
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e·lab·o·rate   (ĭ-lāb'ər-ĭt)   
adj.  

  1. Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details.

  2. Intricate and rich in detail.

v.   (ĭ-lāb'ə-rāt') e·lab·o·rat·ed, e·lab·o·rat·ing, e·lab·o·rates

v.   tr.

  1. To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly.

  2. To produce by effort; create.

v.   intr.

  1. To become elaborate.

  2. To express at greater length or in greater detail: asked me to elaborate on my proposal.


[Latin ēlabōrātus, past participle of ēlabōrāre, to work out : ē-, ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + labōrāre, to work (from labor, work).]
e·lab'o·rate·ly adv., e·lab'o·rate·ness n., e·lab'o·ra'tion n., e·lab'o·ra'tor n.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean marked by complexity of detail: an elaborate lace pattern; the eye, a complicated organ; an intricate problem.
Antonym: simple
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Word Origin & History

elaboration 
1578, 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." Elaborate in the sense of "conducted with attention to detail" is from 1649.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: elab·o·ra·tion
Pronunciation: i-"lab-&-'rA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the act or process of elaborating elaboration of toxic substances>
2 : psychic interpretation or amplification of the content of dreams and other unconscious processes
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Medical Dictionary

elaboration e·lab·o·ra·tion (ĭ-lāb'ə-rā'shən)
n.

  1. The process of working out in detail by labor and study.

  2. 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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