noun (n)

• addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail(noun.act)

  Example:
  An elaboration of the sketch followed.
  

  Synonym:
  amplification
  

  source: wordnet30
• the result of improving something(noun.event)

  Synonym:
  refinement
  

  source: wordnet30
• a discussion that provides additional information(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  enlargement, expansion
  

  source: wordnet30
• marked by elaborately complex detail(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  elaborateness, intricacy, involution
  

  source: wordnet30
• developing in intricate and painstaking detail(noun.act)

  Synonym:
  working out
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.(noun)

  source: webster1913