The difference between Elaboration and Explanation
When used as nouns, elaboration means the act or process of producing or refining with labor, whereas explanation means the act or process of explaining.
check bellow for the other definitions of Elaboration and Explanation
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Elaboration as a noun:
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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Elaboration as a noun:
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
Examples:
"the elaboration of food into chyme"
"the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues"
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Elaboration as a noun (computing):
Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
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Elaboration as a noun (electronics):
The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
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Elaboration as a noun:
(psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
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Explanation as a noun:
The act or process of explaining.
Examples:
"The explanation was long and drawn-out."
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Explanation as a noun:
Something that explains, makes understandable.
Examples:
"An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found."
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Explanation as a noun:
A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.