clarifications

Noun

clarification (countable and uncountable, plural clarifications)

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.
   • The clarification of wine.
2. The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
   • Your ideas deserve clarification.
3. An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.
   • Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?
4. 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. Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.
   • So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?