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discussion
English
Etymology
From Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussi?, from Latin discuti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??sk???n/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /d?s?k???n/
- Hyphenation: dis?cus?sion
Noun
discussion (countable and uncountable, plural discussions)
- Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
- Text giving further detail on a subject.
- (medicine, obsolete) The dispersion of a tumour.
Related terms
- discuss
Translations
French
Etymology
From Late Latin discussi?, from Latin discuti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.ky.sj??/
- Homophone: discussions
Noun
discussion f (plural discussions)
- conversation, discussion (not contradictory or conflictual)
Synonyms
- dialogue
- conversation
Further reading
- “discussion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Late Latin discussi?, from Latin discuti?.
Noun
discussion f (plural discussions)
- discussion
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin discussi?, from Latin discuti?.
Noun
discussion f (oblique plural discussions, nominative singular discussion, nominative plural discussions)
- discussion
discussion From the web:
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- what discussion means
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- what discussion was going on in the court
- what discussion was going on in the court answer
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
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