clarification
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French clarification.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
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 feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
- The clarification of wine.
- 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.
Translations
physical clarification (wine, butter, etc.)
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clarification of ideas, meaning, etc
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Related terms
- see clair
Further reading
- “clarification” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
clarification f (oblique plural clarifications, nominative singular clarification, nominative plural clarifications)
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