clarification

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
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 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 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.

Related terms edit

Translations edit

physical clarification (wine, butter, etc.)

Bulgarian: избистряне n (izbistrjane)
Catalan: clarificació f
Dutch: klaring (nl) f
Finnish: selkeytys (fi)
French: clarification (fr) f
Galician: clarificación (gl) f
Greek: διευκρίνιση (el) f (diefkrínisi)
Hungarian: derítés (hu), szűrés (hu), tisztítás (hu)
Italian: chiarificazione (it) f
Portuguese: clarificação f
Russian: осветле́ние (ru) n (osvetlénije), очище́ние (ru) n (očiščénije), очи́стка (ru) f (očístka)
Spanish: clarificación

clarification of ideas, meaning, etc

Armenian: պարզաբանում (hy) (parzabanum)
Bulgarian: изясняване n (izjasnjavane)
Catalan: aclariment (ca) m
Dutch: opheldering (nl) f, verduidelijking (nl) f
Finnish: tarkennus (fi), täsmennys, selkeytys (fi), selkiytys (fi), selvennys
French: clarification (fr) f
German: Erläuterung (de) f, Verdeutlichung (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (skeireins)
Greek: αποσαφήνιση (el) f (aposafínisi)
Hungarian: tisztázás (hu), pontosítás (hu), egyértelműsítés
Italian: chiarimento (it) m, chiarificazione (it) f
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
Swedish: förtydligande (sv) n
Tagalog: paglilinaw, klaripikasyon

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