What is "elicitation"

Elicitation \E*lic`i*ta"tion\, n. The act of eliciting. [Obs.]
--Abp. Bramhall.

n. The act of eliciting; ''or'', an elicited thing.

n. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" [syn: evocation, induction]

Elicitation may refer to:

• Elicitation (intelligence), collecting intelligence information from people as part of human intelligence (intelligence collection)
• Elicitation technique or elicitation procedure, any of various data collection techniques in social sciences or other fields to gather knowledge or information from people
• Expert elicitation, the synthesis of opinions of experts on a subject where there is uncertainty due to insufficient data
• Multiple EM for Motif Elicitation, a tool for discovering motifs in a group of related DNA or protein sequences
• Preference elicitation, the problem of developing a decision support system capable of generating recommendations to a user, thus assisting him in decision making
• Requirements elicitation, the practice of obtaining the requirements of a system from users, customers and other stakeholders
• Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique, a patented market research tool