elaboration
pronunciation
How to pronounce elaboration in British English:
UK [ɪˌlæbə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce elaboration in American English:
US [ɪˌlæbəˈreʃən]
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- Noun:
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- the result of improving something
- a discussion that provides additional information
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- developing in intricate and painstaking detail
Word Origin
- elaboration (n.)
- 1570s, in a physiological sense relating to tissue development, from Late Latin elaborationem (nominative elaboratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin elaborare "work out, produce by labor, endeavor, struggle," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + laborare "to labor" (see labor (v.)). Meaning "act of working out in great exactness and detail" is from 1610s.
Example
- 1. An elaboration of this idea will follow in chapter 12 .
- 2. Small-class elaboration and education policy formulation .
- 3. Sina did not respond to a request for further elaboration on the post .
- 4. Spending on education and health care , which are free and universal , would be cut , he said , without much elaboration .
- 5. The final examination in vocational education ( four-year and three-year courses ) consists in the elaboration of a theme or practical examination and a written examination in the mother tongue and literature .