Main entry: elaboration, working out
Definition: developing in intricate and painstaking detail
Main entry: amplification, elaboration
Definition: addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
Usage: a few remarks added in amplification and defense; an elaboration of the sketch followed
Main entry: intricacy, involution, elaborateness, elaboration
Definition: marked by elaborately complex detail
Main entry: expansion, enlargement, elaboration
Definition: a discussion that provides additional information
Main entry: refinement, elaboration
Definition: the result of improving something
Usage: he described a refinement of this technique