clarifier

Noun

clarifier (plural clarifiers)

1. One who, or that which, clarifies.
   • It is as a pioneer and “land clearer” that we know Martin-Löf – one of the principal clarifiers of the syntax and semantics of constructive mathematics.2012 -, P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, Erik Palmgren, Epistemology versus Ontology, →ISBN
2. A speech act intended to clarify or correct one's own prior utterance.
3. A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted.
   • the purer the sugar, when placed in the clarifier, the less lime water or blood, or temper of any kind — the less time in clarifying — and the more active vigilance at the clarifier — and the more activity also in transferring the liquor from the evaporator into the cooler will be requisite.1833, Benjamin Silliman, Manual on the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane
4. An additional card used to enhance or explain the primary cards in a spread.
   • […] if any card in the spread puzzles you, you can pull another card from the deck as a clarifier.2004, Barbara Moore, What Tarot Can Do for You: Your Future in the Cards, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 20