ELUCIDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elucidation mean? 

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

1. an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on

2. an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

  Familiarity information: ELUCIDATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELUCIDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

explanation (the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible)

Derivation:

elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)

elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Sense 2

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 ("elucidation" is a kind of...):

interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)

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

disambiguation (clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity)

Derivation:

elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear)

elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

 Context examples 

The systematic account of natural phenomena; in medicine, the elucidation and description of disease progress.

(Natural History, NCI Thesaurus)

Elucidation and description of disease progress

(Natural History and Cofactors, NCI Thesaurus)

This seems to have been a day of general elucidation, for this very morning first unfolded it to us.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elucidation of scientific and engineering principles related to nanoscale structures, processes, and mechanisms.

(Fundamental Nanoscale Phenomena and Processes, NCI Thesaurus)

Identification of the protease that cleaves dbpB, the mechanisms of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, and elucidation of the signaling path by which thrombin induces dbpB will provide greater understanding of this novel signaling pathway.

(DBPB Transcriptional Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A method of crystallography for the elucidation of protein structure with ultra-high resolution (< 1.2 Angstrom).

(Atomic Resolution X-Ray Crystallography, NCI Thesaurus)

Elucidation of anabolic and catabolic pathways using labelled molecules or precursors.

(Pathway Analysis, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

She could still think of little else all the morning; but, when her father came back in the afternoon with the daily newspaper as usual, she was so far from expecting any elucidation through such a channel that the subject was for a moment out of her head.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An act or process of elucidation; explication, or explanation of the meaning of the event or thing via the assignment of objects from the domain to the constants of a formal language, truth-values to the proposition symbols, truth-functions to the connectives, other functions to the function symbols, and extensions to the predicates, if any.

(Interpretation, NCI Thesaurus)

The Agency's work has four main objectives: to monitor global cancer occurrence in terms of cancer incidence, mortality, survival, and registration worldwide; cancer causes identification; elucidation of mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and development of scientific strategies for cancer control.

(International Agency for Research on Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)