development act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development"
elaboration -
a discussion that provides additional information
discussion,
discourse,
treatment an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
expatiation a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail
elaboration -
the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique"
complexity,
complexness the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
elaboration -
addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
elaboration -
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
elaboration -
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.
elaboration -
Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
elaboration -
The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive atomic gates and statements.