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Clarification   /klˌɛrəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Clarification  n.  
1.
The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
2.
The act of freeing from obscurities. "The clarification of men's ideas."






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"Clarification" Quotes from Famous Books



... astronomy. This chain of thoughts, forged link by link, without rest, without hurry, as he sat grinding his glasses, day by day, and year by year: these propositions, laboriously polished like his telescope and microscope lenses, were no less designed for the furtherance and clarification of human vision. ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... the process depends on the particular problem, the process itself is the same for all. During the clarification of the problem, the commander will have entertained certain ideas,—ideas as to such matters as the existing situation, the desired new situation, the possible physical objectives, the relative positions and movements of the forces involved, and related matters. His ...
— Sound Military Decision • U.s. Naval War College

... the morning, acceptant of what he had done in the night. A calmness had set in and with it had come a clarification of his thought. His grasp of the position was more definite, and his feeling was that, to meet it adequately, he must disattach ...
— Cleo The Magnificent - The Muse of the Real • Louis Zangwill

... 1909, p. 169 ff.) In the laws of the grand lodge "Indissolubilis" (17th and 18th centuries) there are found as doctrinal symbols of the three grades, the alchemistic symbols of salt (rectification, clarification), of quicksilver (illumination), and of sulphur (unification, tincture), used in a way that corresponds to the stages of realization of the "Great Work." The M. H. d. C. G., 1909, p. 173 ff. remarks that we should probably regard it only as an accident, if there are not found, ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer



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