different between elucidation vs demonstration

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??lu.s??de?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

elucidation (countable and uncountable, plural elucidations)

1. A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration
   • 6 December 2016, Christopher Hooton writing in The Independent, Westworld: Ed Harris doesn’t have a clue what’s going on either

     The finale might not provide much elucidation, a feature-length instalment that bombarded the viewer with information.

   • 1912, Percy Brown, Picturesque Nepal

     At a time like the present when Eastern æsthetics are attracting the attention of scholars in all quarters, and particularly when the great field of Buddhist art is coming more into focus, a view of a little-known aspect of this subject may perhaps be the humble means of assisting in the elucidation of some of the complex problems with which this study is surrounded.

   • 1798, Thomas Malthus. An Essay on the Principle of Population

     The essay might, undoubtedly, have been rendered much more complete by a collection of a greater number of facts in elucidation of the general argument.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”).Morphologically demonstrate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m?n?st?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)

1. The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
   1. (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. An event at which something will be demonstrated.

   I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.

3. Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
4. A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
5. A show of military force.
6. A mathematical proof.
   • a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:

     He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

Related terms

• demonstrable
• demonstrate
• demonstrator
• monster
• remonstration
• demo

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????????? (demonsutor?shon)

Translations

Anagrams

• nonmeditators

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dem?nsd????o?n/

Noun

demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)

1. demonstration

Declension

Further reading

• “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog