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Clarification vs Elaboration - What's the difference?

clarification | elaboration |

Elaboration is a synonym of clarification.



As nouns the difference between clarification and elaboration

is that clarification is 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 feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent while elaboration is the act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

clarification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities]]; particularly, the clearing or [[fine, fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
    • The clarification of wine.
  • The act of freeing from obscurities.
    • Your ideas deserve clarification.

    Quotations

    * 1627 , , Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries *: To know the means of accelerating clarification [in liquors] we must know the causes of clarification.

    Related terms

    * clarifier * clarify

    References

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    See also

    * qualification ----

    elaboration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
  • (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
  • (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.