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elaboration

[ ih-lab-uh-rey-shuhn ]

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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Other 51Թ Forms

  • -·o·tDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of elaboration1

First recorded in 1570–80; from Latin ŧōپō-, stem of ŧōپō, from ŧō(ܲ) “worked out” (past participle of ŧō “to work out, produce through labor”; elaborate ) + -ion
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He acknowledged that speculation about a lab leak is not in itself a conspiracy theory, but that doesn’t go for the elaborations that many of its adherents have made of it.

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"These results help us understand the evolutionary history of horns and antlers and could suggest that differences in other ruminant cranial appendages, like ossicones and pronghorns, are also elaborations on a shared ancestral cranial appendage."

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The fourth church, New Hope Baptist of Gastonia, N.C., had failed to participate financially in the convention and showed no intent “to resolve a question of faith and practice,” the committee said without elaboration.

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Neither office responded to a Times request for elaboration on what was found and where.

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Slow tempo melodic elaborations that had a strong emotive emphasis became the insignia of his performances.

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