# elaboration

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #36,120

## Definitions
1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The level of processing of a message or argument.

## Etymology
From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **evaporation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elaboration-vs-evaporation)

## Common misspellings (16)
`ealboration`, `elabboration`, `elaboartion`, `elaboraiton`, `elaborasion`, `elaboratino`, `elaborationn`, `elaboratoin`, `elaborattion`, `elaborration`, `elabortaion`, `elabroation`, `elaobration`, `elbaoration`, `ellaboration`, `leaboration`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/elaboration