English Explanatory Dictionary

clarification

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
  2. The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
  3. An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
  4. A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
  5. Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.

Pronunciation

/ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clarification.wav /ˌklɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkæɪʃən/

Word forms

clarification clarifications

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

Related words

clarifier clarify qualification sedimentation

Derived words

explainification reclarification

Translations

Bulgarian: избистряне Catalan: clarificació Dutch: klaring Finnish: selkeytys French: clarification Galician: clarificación Greek: διαύγαση Hungarian: derítés Hungarian: szűrés Hungarian: tisztítás Interlingua: clarification Italian: chiarificazione Ottoman Turkish: تصفیه Portuguese: clarificação Russian: осветле́ние Russian: очище́ние Russian: очи́стка Spanish: clarificación Ukrainian: очи́щення Ukrainian: осві́тлення
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary