clarification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

   The clarification of wine.

2. The act of freeing from obscurities.

   Your ideas deserve clarification.

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, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiōnem. By surface analysis, clarifier +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.ʁi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Related terms

• see clair

Further reading

• “clarification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clārificātiō.

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Descendants

• French: clarification
• → English: clarification