clarification

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe 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 clarification of wine.

2. countableuncountableThe act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.

   Your ideas deserve clarification.

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

   Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?

In a sentence

The clarification of wine.

Where it comes from

1. Latinclārificātiō
2. Middle Frenchclarification
3. Englishclarification

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.