clarification
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /ˌklɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
[edit]clarification (countable and uncountable, plural clarifications)
- 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.
- The clarification of wine.
- The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
- Your ideas deserve clarification.
- An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
- Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?
- (journalism) 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).
- (in the phrase for clarification) Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.
- So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?
Quotations
[edit]- 1627, Sir Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries:
- To know the means of accelerating clarification [in liquors] we must know the causes of clarification.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]physical clarification (wine, butter, etc.)
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clarification of ideas, meaning, etc
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “clarification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiōnem. By surface analysis, clarifier + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clarification f (plural clarifications)
Related terms
[edit]- see clair
Further reading
[edit]- “clarification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin clārificātiō.
Noun
[edit]clarification f (plural clarifications)
Descendants
[edit]- French: clarification
- → English: clarification
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