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Elaboration is the act of adding more information to existing information to create a more complex, emergent whole. It may also refer to:

Music

• Elaboration, a type of variation (music)
• Prolongation, a central principle in the music-analytic methodology of Schenkerian analysis
• Elaborating instruments, or panerusan in Indonesian gamelan music

Other uses

• Progressive elaboration, a process for creating a work breakdown structure in project management
• Conceptual elaboration, the Buddhist concept of conceptual proliferation
• Elaboration likelihood model, a psychological theory on the change of attitudes
• Elaboration principle, a process of recruiting new members into a group

See also

• Centre for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies, a laboratory in Toulouse, France
• Elaborate Bytes, the Swiss software development company behind CloneDVD
• The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a 2009 play by Kristoffer Diaz
• Operation Elaborate, the codename of the 2022 iSpoof fraud investigation
• Elaborative interrogation, the use of explanations to help remember information
• Elaborative encoding, a different mnemonic system