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clarification
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun clarification has 2 senses
- clarification(n = noun.communication) elucidation, illumination - an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook" is a kind of interpretation
- clarification(n = noun.act) clearing - the act of removing solid particles from a liquid; Array is a kind of improvement
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Derived form verb clarify1
Derived form verb clarify2
CIDE DICTIONARY
clarification, n. [Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification.].
- The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine. [1913 Webster]
- The act of freeing from obscurities. [1913 Webster]"The clarification of men's ideas." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
clarification
allegorization, bolting, colature, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, destructive distillation, distillation, easing, editing, edulcoration, elucidation, elution, elutriation, emendation, enlightenment, essentialization, euhemerism, exegesis, exemplification, expediting, expedition, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, extraction, facilitation, filtering, filtration, hastening, illumination, illustration, leaching, light, lixiviation, percolation, purification, quickening, rationale, reason, refinement, riddling, screening, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, simplifying, smoothing, solution, speeding, spiritualization, straining, streamlining, sublimation, unlocking, winnowing
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