clarification

Meanings

Plural: clarifications

Noun

• an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding
  • "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"
• the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
• 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.
• The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
• An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
• 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).
• Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.

Synonyms

clearing, elucidation, illumination

Related Words

clarifier, clarify, qualification, sedimentation