elaboration

[ UK /ɪlˌæbəɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ɪˌɫæbɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the result of improving something
    he described a refinement of this technique
  2. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
    a few remarks added in amplification and defense
    an elaboration of the sketch followed
  3. marked by elaborately complex detail
  4. developing in intricate and painstaking detail
  5. a discussion that provides additional information
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How To Use elaboration In A Sentence

  • These techniques can be distinguished from those in which the body itself is an immediate object of elaboration and inscription.
  • I would like to propose one broadly based category which will clearly require extensive elaboration and refinement.
  • It is the very key to understanding the apostle Paul's elaboration of his doctrine of salvation.
  • When I was away from her -- oh, the easeless longing that was almost pain, the fanciful elaboration of our last talk, the hint of her graces in bird and flower and tree! The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • Further elaboration is needless and comments are unnecessary, we know. Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop
  • Little self-important copperplate fountain-penned comments such ‘Easily distracted’ start to creep into the elaboration box.
  • This was by way of elaboration of his first statement, which dealt with the scope of the repainting undertaken using white and green paint.
  • Taking Pestalozzi's idea that the purpose of the teacher was to give pupils new experiences through contacts with real things, without assuming that the pupils already had such, Herbart elaborated the process by which new knowledge is assimilated in terms of what one already knows, and from his elaboration of this principle the doctrine of apperception -- that is, the apperceiving or comprehending of new knowledge in terms of the old -- has been fixed as an important principle in educational psychology. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
  • Please feel free to contact me should you want any elaboration on anything.
  • Moreover, many widely reported accounts of astonishing experiences are elaborations or flat lies.
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