Clarification
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of removing solid particles from a liquid
(2) An interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding
"The professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- 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.