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clarification
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)
- 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 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)
- 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)
- clarification
Descendants
- French: clarification
- ? English: clarification
clarification From the web:
- what clarification mean
- what does clarification mean
- what is an example of clarification
disambiguation
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?sæm?b??ju??e???n/
- Hyphenation: dis?am?big?u?a?tion
Noun
disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)
- The removal of ambiguity.
- 1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88
- Disambiguation — where it is to fix the sense of an ambiguous term. This operation has been termed distinction by some Logicians, and erroneously reckoned as a species of division.
- 1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.
Synonyms
- clarification, enlightenment, illumination
Translations
Further reading
- Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Scots
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
disambiguation (plural disambiguations)
- Disambiguation.
disambiguation From the web:
- what's disambiguation mean
- what does disambiguation mean
- what does disambiguation mean on wikipedia
- what is disambiguation in linguistics
- what does disambiguation mean on facebook
- what is disambiguation in translation
- what is disambiguation with examples
- what does disambiguation mean in spanish
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