Dictionary Entry
elaboration
elaboration is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
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- 1noun
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
developing in intricate and painstaking detail
- 4noun
addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
"a few remarks added in amplification and defense"
"an elaboration of the sketch followed"
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- 5noun
marked by elaborately complex detail
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- 6noun
a discussion that provides additional information
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- 7noun
the result of improving something
"he described a refinement of this technique"
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