elaboration

elaborate | American Dictionary

elaborate
adjective
us/ɪˈlæb·ə·rət/
containing a lot of connected parts or many complicated details:
an elaborate ceremony
an elaborate fireworks display
They had created elaborate computer programs to run the system.

elaborately

adverbus/ɪˈlæb·ə·rət·li/
an elaborately decorated dining room
elaborate
verb[ I ]
us/ɪˈlæb·əˌreɪt/
to add more information or explain something that you have said:
He refused to elaborate on why he had resigned.

Examples of elaborate

elaborate
In the end this elaborate process has so far sustained the electoral dominance of the two national parties.
That is, to elaborate on how to engineer artificial systems with desirable emergent properties.
This should lead the way to developing child language, and to elaborating hybrid language models - both symbolic and probabilistic - for the adult language.
Perhaps, certain cultural (medical) practices elaborate on masculine, or respectively, feminine, themes.
An elaborate system of this kind is obviously not the product of an oral or semioral practitioners' culture but of a school.
They do not require the construction of elaborate stencils or masks as they have their own methods of achieving precision.
The gardens and lakes were prepared for the performance of elaborate pageantry and simulated naval battles.
Our purpose here is to elaborate these analytical dimensions in relation to workplace discourse.
The elaborate, if formalised, rhetoric of official speeches is not comparable to a series of popularised archaeological accounts or newspaper articles.
We start from a simple series and then elaborate it.
Changes in the architectural order of the monument can thus be seen as a means of elaborating the classificatory possibilities which it made available.
The effects of simplified and elaborated texts on foreign language reading comprehension.
In this magnum opus he used biological metaphors to analyse the functioning of a national economic system and elaborate a detailed typology of socio-economic phenomena.
Thus, an experienced, talented embroiderer working on the panels for elaborate, expensive dresses could expect to earn, at most, slightly less than £80 per year.
She elaborates this connection, which goes beyond words to musical material and dramatic structures.
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