detail applies to one of the small component parts of a larger whole such as a task, building, painting, narration, or process.

DETAIL definition: 1. a single piece of information or fact about something: 2. information about someone or…. Learn more.

DETAIL definition: an individual or minute part; an item or particular. See examples of detail used in a sentence.

2. an item or circumstance that is insignificant or unimportant: passengers' comfort was regarded as a detail. 3. treatment of or attention to items or particulars: this essay includes too much detail.

a small section of a larger whole, esp. of a photograph magnified to show what the eye would not otherwise be able to see:[countable] A close-up detail of the rocket launcher showed where the faulty …

To relate, report, or narrate in particulars; recite the particulars of; particularize; tell fully and distinctly: as, to detail all the facts in due order. To give details or particulars about something.