clarification

noun5

1. •
   The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.

   • Your ideas deserve clarification.
2. •
   Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear.

   • So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?
3. •
   An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity.

   • Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?
4. •
   A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
5. •
   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.

   • The clarification of wine.