elaboration

Definition

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Etymology

From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

Example Sentences

• "Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]."
• "the elaboration of food into chyme"
• "the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues"