Elaboration

(n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Elaboration - Other Definitions

(n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
(n.) 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.