Definitions for elaborations

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elaborations e·lab·o·ra·tion

Spelling: [ih-lab-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən/

Elaborations is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 2290 anagrams from letters in elaborations (aabeilnoorst).

Definitions for elaborations

noun

1. an act or instance of elaborating.
2. the state of being elaborated; elaborateness.
3. something that is elaborated.
4. Psychiatry. an unconscious process of expanding and embellishing a detail, especially while recalling and describing a representation in a dream so that latent content of the dream is brought into a logical and comprehensible order.

Origin of elaborations

1570-80; Latin ēlabōrātiōn- (stem of ēlabōrātiō), equivalent to ēlabōrāt- (see elaborate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for elaborations

A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration.

Lack of elaboration is a virus that continually infects the book, sometimes having a sickening effect on the reader.

These theories merely an elaboration of one method of wage payment.

It is neither the time nor the place to ask for elaboration.

A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.

The system represents a series of compromises, not the elaboration of a theory.

It is splendid in colouring and wonderful in the elaboration of detail.

The craving for excitement and for elaboration has ruined that blessing.

It was an elaboration of the theories contained in his earlier book.

He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.