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Elucidation

Elucidation Meaning & Definition
Elucidation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elucidation?

[n] an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"
[n] an act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elucidation: clarification | illumination

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elucidation: allegorization | clarification | cracking | decipherment | decoding | demonstration | demythologization | editing | emendation | enlightenment | euhemerism | exegesis | exemplification | explanation | explication | exposition | expounding | illumination | illustration | light | rationale | reason | simplification | solution | unlocking

See Also | disambiguation | explanation | interpretation

Elucidation In Webster's Dictionary

\E*lu`ci*da"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]lucidation.] A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

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