clearings

Noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

1. The act or process of making or becoming clear.
2. An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
   • Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   glade

3. An open space in the fog etc.
4. A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
5. A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
6. (UK) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.

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