elaboration

Noun

• developing in intricate and painstaking detail

• marked by elaborately complex detail

• a discussion that provides additional information

• the result of improving something
  • he described a refinement of this technique
    

• addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
  • a few remarks added in amplification and defense
    
  • an elaboration of the sketch followed
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  working out , elaborateness , intricacy , involution , expansion , enlargement , refinement , amplification