clarification
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.
- derived from clārificātiō
- borrowed from clarification
Definitions
The act of clarifying
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.
The act of freeing from obscurities
The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
- Your ideas deserve clarification.
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?
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A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to…
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).
Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding
Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.
- So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?
The neighborhood
- neighborclarifier
- neighborclarify
- neighborqualification
- neighborsedimentation
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at clarification. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at clarification. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at clarification
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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