The level of processing of a message or argument.
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.
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
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.
The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
An instance or example of such overstatement.