different between clarification vs annotation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin cl?rific?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæ??f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

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.

2. The act of freeing from obscurities.

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.

Related terms

• clarifier
• clarify

Translations

See also

• qualification
• sedimentation

References

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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French clarification, from Latin cl?rific?ti?; equivalent to clarifier +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.?i.fi.ka.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Related terms

• see clair

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cl?rific?ti?.

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Descendants

• French: clarification
• ? English: clarification

English

Etymology

From Latin annot?ti?nem, accusative singular of annot?ti? (“remark, annotation”), from annot?tus, perfect passive participle of annot? (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

annotation (countable and uncountable, plural annotations)

1. A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
2. A comment added to a text.
3. The process of writing such comment or commentary.
4. (computing) Metadata added to a document or program.
5. (genetics) Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin annot?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.n?.ta.sj??/

Noun

annotation f (plural annotations)

1. annotation

Related terms

• annoter

Further reading

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