Amplification

Am·pli·fi·ca·tion

Amplification

n.
  1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
  2. The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. (Rhet.)
    Exaggeration is a species of amplification.
    I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied.
  3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications.