CLARIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clarification mean? 

• CLARIFICATION (noun)
  The noun CLARIFICATION has 2 senses:

1. an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

2. the act of removing solid particles from a liquid

  Familiarity information: CLARIFICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clarification; elucidation; illumination

Context example:

the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook

Hypernyms ("clarification" is a kind of...):

interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clarification"):

disambiguation (clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity)

Derivation:

clarify (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of removing solid particles from a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

clarification; clearing

Hypernyms ("clarification" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Derivation:

clarify (make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating)

 Context examples 

For NDAs, ANDAs, and BLAs, this represents a request to modify an existing label that do not rise to the level of an efficacy supplement for purposes such as adding additional safety information, clarification, etc. Labeling supplements may only be submitted once the original-application has been approved/licensed.

(Labeling Supplement, Food and Drug Administration)

Cytogenetics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center members with support in following areas: routine cytogenetic (such as giemsa (G)-banding on fibroblast, lymphoblast or somatic cell hybrid lines to determine karyotypes, etc.), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for clarification of karyotypes, and SKY (spectral karyotyping), to analyze chromosomal changes, microsatellite analysis of tumors for loss of heterozygosity, mutation analysis of tumors, chimerism studies of bone marrow transplants; maintenance of cell lines and lymphocytes.

(Cytogenetics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)