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clarification

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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 impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
    The clarification of wine.
  2. The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
    Your ideas deserve clarification.
  3. 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?
  4. (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).
  5. (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

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  • 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.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiōnem. By surface analysis, clarifier +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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clarification f (plural clarifications)

  1. clarification
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Further reading

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Middle French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin clārificātiō.

Noun

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clarification f (plural clarifications)

  1. clarification

Descendants

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  • French: clarification
  • → English: clarification
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