объясне́ние — meaning in English

English meaning

• account noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
• clarification noun The act of making something clearer or easier to understand.
• definition noun A statement explaining what a word or term means.
• explanation noun A statement or account that makes something clear or gives a reason for it.
• explication noun The act of opening or unfolding.
• interpretation noun The particular meaning that someone takes from something, especially where more than one reading is possible.

Senses

объясне́ние is used for these senses in English:

• account (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]
• 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.
• definition The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
• explanation The act or process of explaining.
• explication The act of opening or unfolding.

account — full definition

1. noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
2. noun A record of money held at a bank, or of a person's access to a service.
3. verb To give a satisfactory explanation for something (usually with "for").

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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