Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail:
— An elaboration of the sketch followed.

synonym: amplification.

Roget 673: preparation; providing etc. v.; provision, providence; anticipation etc. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation^†, predisposition; forecast etc. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation.    [Putting in order] arrangement etc. 60; clearance; adjustment etc. 23; tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.    ripening etc. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.    groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold etc. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage [Fr.].    [Preparation of men] training etc. (education) 537; inurement etc. (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking [Preparation of food], cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, [Preparation of the soil], sowing; semination^†, cultivation.    [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness, mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].    [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier [Fr.], avant-coureur [Fr.]; voortrekker [Afrik.]; sappers and miners, pavior^†, navvy^†; packer, stevedore; warming pan.    ... show more

Roget 729: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close etc. (end) 67; terminus etc. (arrival) 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link etc. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].    elaboration; finality; completeness etc. 52.    ... show more

The result of improving something.

synonym: refinement.

Roget 658: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending etc. v.; advancement; advance etc. (progress) 282; ascent etc. 305; promotion, preferment; elevation etc. 307; increase etc. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture^†; race-culture, eugenics.    reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor [Lat.], refinement, elaboration; purification etc. 652; oxidation; repair etc. (restoration) 660; recovery etc. 660.    revise, new edition.    reformer, radical.    ... show more

Dutch: zuivering, verfijning

A discussion that provides additional information.

synonyms: enlargement, expansion.

Marked by elaborately complex detail.

synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution.

Dutch: verwikkeling
Polish: misterność

Developing in intricate and painstaking detail.

synonym: working out.