clarification

Borrowed from Old French clarification.

• IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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 feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

   The clarification of wine.

2. The act of freeing from obscurities.

   Your ideas deserve clarification.

• 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.

• clarifier
• clarify

• qualification
• sedimentation

• clarification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

clarifier +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /kla.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

• see clair

• “clarification” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

clarification f (oblique plural clarifications, nominative singular clarification, nominative plural clarifications)

1. clarification