elucidation

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  1. The act of elucidating or of throwing light upon any obscure subject. We shall, in order to the elucidation of this matter, subjoin the following experiment. Boyle. The elucidation of the organic idea … is the business and talk of philosophy. Jour. Spec. Phil., XIX. 39.
  2. That which explains or throws light; explanation; illustration: as, one example may serve for an elucidation of the subject. I might refer the reader to see it highly verified in David Blondel's familiar elucidations of the eucharistical controversie. Jer. Taylor, Real Presence, § 12. I shall … allot to each of them [sports and pastimes] a separate elucidation. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 55.

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  • These T-IhNSC line provides a versatile model for the elucidation of the mechanisms involved in human neural stem cells expansion and for development of high throughput assays for both basic and translational research on human neural cell development. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • These seven housekeeping genes were successfully applied for the elucidation of lineages for 73 C. botulinum type A strains, which resulted in 24 distinct sequence types. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We were soon to learn that a scrap of music set down within three or four minutes was to require as many hours for revision, emendation, elucidation--for editing, in brief. —  The Shadow World
  • I am satisfied that no greater contribution can be made to the cause of learning than a presentation of these topics and their elucidation, so that the teacher shall feel that what he does is philosophical, and therefore wise The only way to achieve success is to apply faithfully the means at hand. —  Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions
  • But for the elucidation of these principles, readers must refer to treatises of Chemistry and Physics 5) Causation, a special form of the foregoing principles of the persistence of matter and energy, we shall discuss in the next chapter. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
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  1. = French élucidation = Spanish elucidacion = Portuguese elucidação, from Late Latin as if *elucidatio(n-), from elucidare, make light or clear: see elucidate.
 

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