clarification

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Old French clarification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

clarification (countable and uncountable, 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

physical clarification (wine, butter, etc.)

• Bulgarian: избистряне n (izbistrjane)
• Finnish: selkeytys (fi)
• Greek: διευκρίνιση (el) f (diefkrínisi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: chiarificazione (it) f
• Russian: осветле́ние (ru) n (osvetlénije), очище́ние (ru) n (očiščénije), очи́стка (ru) f (očístka)

clarification of ideas, meaning, etc

• Armenian: պարզաբանում (hy) (parzabanum)
• Bulgarian: изясняване n (izjasnjavane)
• Catalan: aclariment m
• Dutch: opheldering (nl) f, verduidelijking (nl) f
• Finnish: tarkennus (fi), täsmennys, selvennys
• French: clarification (fr) f
• German: Erläuterung (de) f, Verdeutlichung f
• Greek: αποσαφήνιση (el) f (aposafínisi)
• Italian: chiarimento (it) m, chiarificazione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: klaryfikacja f
• Portuguese: clarificação f
• Romanian: clarificare (ro) f
• Russian: проясне́ние (ru) n (projasnénije), поясне́ние (ru) n (pojasnénije), объясне́ние (ru) n (obʺjasnénije), разъясне́ние (ru) n (razʺjasnénije)
• Spanish: clarificación f
• Tagalog: paglilinaw, klaripikasyon

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Translations to be checked

• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} soilleireachadh m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} స్పష్టీకరణ (te) (spaṣṭīkaraṇa)

See also

• qualification
• sedimentation

References

• “clarification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Etymology

clarifier +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Related terms

• see clair

Further reading

• “clarification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Noun

clarification oblique singular, f (oblique plural clarifications, nominative singular clarification, nominative plural clarifications)

1. clarification