noun
- Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail.
- usage: "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
- synonyms: amplification
- The result of improving something.
- usage: "he described a refinement of this technique"
- synonyms: refinement
- A discussion that provides additional information.
- synonyms: expansion, enlargement
- Marked by elaborately complex detail.
- synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution
- Developing in intricate and painstaking detail.
- synonyms: working out
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