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
- noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
- noun The act or process of adding such notes, or of labelling data so it can be searched or used to train software.
- noun In programming, a piece of metadata attached to code that tells a tool or framework how to treat it.
clarification — full definition
- noun The act of making something clearer or easier to understand.
- noun The process of removing impurities from a liquid to make it clear.