clarification

clarification
a) 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.

The clarification of wine.

b) The act of freeing from obscurities.

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See Also: clarifier, clarify

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