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Erläuterung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annotation noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  • clarification noun The act of making something clearer or easier to understand.
  • elucidation noun A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration
  • explanation noun A statement or account that makes something clear or gives a reason for it.
  • gloss noun A shiny, polished surface.

Senses

Erläuterung is used for these senses in English:

  • clarification 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.
  • elucidation A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration
  • explanation The act or process of explaining.
  • gloss (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
  • gloss (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.

annotation — full definition

  1. noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  2. noun The act or process of adding such notes, or of labelling data so it can be searched or used to train software.
  3. noun In programming, a piece of metadata attached to code that tells a tool or framework how to treat it.

clarification — full definition

  1. noun The act of making something clearer or easier to understand.
  2. noun The process of removing impurities from a liquid to make it clear.

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