clarification

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

clarification (plural clarifications)

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 feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

   The clarification of wine.

2. The act of freeing from obscurities.

   Your ideas deserve clarification.

Quotations

• 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.

Related terms

• clarifier
• clarify

Translations

act of clarifying

• Bulgarian: изясняване (bg) (izjasnjavane), избистряне (bg) (izbistrjane), очистване (bg) (očistvane)
• Dutch: opheldering (nl) f, verduidelijking (nl) f
• French: clarification (fr) f
• German: Erläuterung (de) f, Verdeutlichung (de) f
• Italian: chiarimento (it) m

• Russian: пояснение (ru) (pojasnénije) n, объяснение (ru) (obʺjasnénije) n, разъяснение (ru) (razʺjasnénije) n, очищение (ru) (očiščénije) n (purification)
• Scottish Gaelic: soilleireachadh (gd) m
• Spanish: clarificación (es) f
• Telugu: స్పష్టీకరణ (te) (spashTeekaraNa)

References

• clarification in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

See also

• qualification

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French

Etymology

clarifier +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kla.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -jɔ̃

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Related terms

• see clair