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EXPLICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does explication mean? 

EXPLICATION (noun)
  The noun EXPLICATION has 2 senses:

1. the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc.play

2. a detailed explanation of the meaning of somethingplay

  Familiarity information: EXPLICATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPLICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("explication" is a kind of...):

explanation (the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible)

Derivation:

explicate (make plain and comprehensible)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A detailed explanation of the meaning of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("explication" is a kind of...):

account; explanation (a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.)

Derivation:

explicate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)

explicate (make plain and comprehensible)


 Context examples 


An act or process of elucidation; explication, or explanation of the meaning of the event or thing via the assignment of objects from the domain to the constants of a formal language, truth-values to the proposition symbols, truth-functions to the connectives, other functions to the function symbols, and extensions to the predicates, if any.

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