elaboration

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

2. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The level of processing of a message or argument.

1. Further elaboration or ornament would only detract from the perfection of its simplicity.

   deWeitere Ausschmückungen oder Verzierungen würden nur die Vollkommenheit seiner Einfachheit schmälern.

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2. This summary is too succinct; it needs further elaboration to make it understandable.

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