[ふさく, fusaku] (n) (arch) lucubration; elaboration; chisel and ax [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F.
['e]laboration.]
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor;
improvement by successive operations; refinement.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Physiol.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaboration
n 1: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying
detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense";
"an elaboration of the sketch followed" [syn:
{amplification}, {elaboration}]
2: the result of improving something; "he described a refinement
of this technique" [syn: {refinement}, {elaboration}]
3: a discussion that provides additional information [syn:
{expansion}, {enlargement}, {elaboration}]
4: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: {elaborateness},
{elaboration}, {intricacy}, {involution}]
5: developing in intricate and painstaking detail [syn:
{elaboration}, {working out}]
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