Examples of “elaboration” in a Sentence

noun The process of developing or improving something through careful, repeated work.

• The elaboration of the recipe took months of tasting and small changes.
• Through careful elaboration, the team turned a rough sketch into a finished plan.
• Each draft brought further elaboration of the theory until it finally held together.

noun In biology, the natural process by which living organs in plants and animals turn a raw substance into something more developed.

• the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues
• the elaboration of food into chyme

noun Working out, in order, a set of fixed values in a programming language like Ada, where earlier values can determine later ones.

• In this language, elaboration of the constants happens in the order they are declared.
• The compiler reported an error during the elaboration of the package.
• A later constant can depend on an earlier one, so the elaboration order matters.

noun In digital design, the process of turning a parsed circuit description, such as one written in Verilog, into layers of module instances down to basic logic gates and statements.

• During elaboration, the tool expands the design into smaller modules and basic gates.
• Elaboration failed because one module referred to a part that did not exist.
• After elaboration, the engineer could inspect the full hierarchy of the chip design.