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Substantiivi

1. 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 impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
2. The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
3. An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
4. (journalism) A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
5. (in the phrase for clarification) Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.