clarification

noun

The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.

An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.

(in the phrase for clarification) Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.

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 impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

(journalism) A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).

Roots

clarusclar- · Latin · clear, bright

Synonyms for clarification

elucidationn explanationn explicationn illuminationn simplificationn emendationn expoundingn

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