ELABORATION
\ɪlˌabəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɪlˌabəɹˈeɪʃən], \ɪ_l_ˌa_b_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ELABORATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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marked by elaborately complex detail
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developing in intricate and painstaking detail
By Princeton University
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marked by elaborately complex detail
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developing in intricate and painstaking detail
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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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; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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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; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Act of elaborating: refinement: the process by which substances are formed in the organs of animals or plants.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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This word is used, by physiologists, to signify the various changes which substances susceptible of assimilation undergo, through the action of living organs, before they are capable of serving for nutrition. The food is said to be elaborated in the stomach during the formation of chyme; the chyme is elaborated in the small intestine before it is chyle, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act or process of producing with labour; state of being so produced;—the natural process of formation or assimilation performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables.
By Thomas Sheridan
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