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1
the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced
- the elaboration of the Internet from an exclusive computer network into a worldwide communications network of colossal proportions
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2
the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts
- the eyewitness was deemed unreliable because of his obvious elaboration of what he had actually seen
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