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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. The act or process of explaining
  2. : The explanation was long and drawn-out.
  3. Something that explains
  4. : The explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.


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  • Chinese:
  • : Mandarin: (jiěshì)
  • Danish: forklaring
  • German: {{t+|de|Erläuterung|f}}, {{t+|de|Erklärung|f}}, {{t+|de|Ausführung|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Japanese: (, setsumei)
  • Portuguese: explicação , explanação
  • Russian: {{t|ru|объяснение|n|tr=objasn'énije|sc=Cyrl}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Erklärung|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Portuguese: explicação , explanação
  • Russian: {{t|ru|объяснение|n|tr=objasn'énije|sc=Cyrl}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Explanation \Ex`pla*na"tion\, n. [L. explanatio: cf. OF.
esplanation.]
1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the
act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible;
as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a
contract or treaty.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
explanation.
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3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it;
definition; interpretation; sense.
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Different explanations [of the Trinity]. --Bp.
Burnet.
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4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a
view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile
differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an
explanation.

Syn: Definition; description; explication; exposition;
interpretation; detail. See Definition.
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WordNet explanation
n 1: a statement that makes something comprehensible by
describing the relevant structure or operation or
circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple";
"I expected a brief account" [syn: account]
2: thought that makes something comprehensible
3: the act of explaining; making something plain or
intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident"
Moby Dictionary
abstraction , accomplishment , account , allegorization , analysis ,
answer , ascertainment , body of theory , case , case in point , cause ,
clarification , clearance , clearing , clearing up , commentary ,
construction , cracking , criticism , decipherment , decoding ,
definition , delineation , demonstration , demythologization ,
denouement , description , destigmatization , destigmatizing ,
determination , disclosure , disentanglement , doctrinairism ,
doctrinality , doctrinarity , editing , elucidation , emblem ,
emendation , end , end result , enlightenment , euhemerism , example ,
exculpation , excuse , exegesis , exemplar , exemplification ,
explication , exponent , expose , exposition , expounding , finding ,
finding-out , grounds , illumination , illustration , instance ,
interpretation , issue , justification , key , light , meaning ,
mere theory , motive , object lesson , outcome , pretense , pretext ,
purgation , purging , rational ground , rationale , rationalization ,
reason , reason why , rehabilitation , reinstatement ,
relevant instance , representative , resolution , resolving ,
restoration , result , riddling , signification , simplification ,
solution , solving , sorting out , speculation , stated cause , symbol ,
tentative explanation , the big idea , the idea , the whatfor ,
the wherefore , the why , theoretic , theoretical basis ,
theoretical structure , theoretics , theoria , theoric , theorization ,
theory , type , typical example , underlying reason , unified theory ,
unlocking , unraveling , unriddling , unscrambling , unspinning ,
untangling , untwisting , unweaving , upshot , vindication , working ,
working-out


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