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

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a detailed explanation of the meaning of something

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At various times, versions of the explication were trialled in workshops, classes and seminars, including Anna Wierzbicka's Advanced Seminar on Semantics at the Australian National University (ANU).
The latter events were so momentous, according to Sloterdijk, because they made radioactivity explicit to all, and "phenomenal catastrophe" flipped into "a catastrophe of the phenomenal." Relentless, the beat of explication goes on to this day: Sloterdijk highlights a project paper, developed by the US Department of Defense in 1996, titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025," which looks forward to "battlefield dominance" through ionosphere control.
It shines in the authors' explication of Tillich's thought on idolatry and the very adept application of that critique to the Christian tradition, including Tillich's own neglect of the potential for hidden idolatry in God-language.
This is a richly rewarding explication of American myth and racial politics that speaks to our time as well as to the century-old record it examines.
"La Russie insiste pour obtenir une explication sur les motifs d'une telle attitude de la part des autorites turques", dit un communique du ministere, qui juge que "les vies et la securite des passagers ont ete mises en danger au cours de cet incident".
Il a egalement presente une explication sur la situation dans les pays voisins, en particulier dans l'Etat du Sud-Soudan expliquant a cet egard que le Soudan a ouvert ses frontieres aux citoyens touches par le conflit au Sud-Soudan a vivre en tant que citoyens et non en tant que refugies, en plus de fournir l'aide humanitaire aux personnes touchees par la guerre.
Un communique de la HAICA a explique cette mesure par les dysfonctionnements entachant les sequences ou le presentateur interrogeait agressivement et de maniere musclee une jeune fille pour lui arracher une explication sur sa presence sur les lieux, ce qui constitue, ajoute le communique, une violation flagrante de l'article 5 du decret-loi 116.
Though it sometimes cannot decide whether it wants to concentrate on history, organology, or ethnography, on balance it settles for the second of these: there are extensive sections on replicating musical instruments but comparatively little explication of the music they play (though once introduced, children require little in the way of explication).
Here is an important explication of the important point that reform of the liturgy is reform of the church.
explication de texteplural explications de texte French, literally, explanation of text
I conclude with an explication of the differences between a materialist and an idealist approach to rhetoric and social movements and a discussion of the advantages of maintaining a distinction between the two levels of social reality for the explanation of social stability and change.
The prominent theme and perhaps the most original contribution of this work is the penetrating analysis of the authentic nature of a philosophical explication of morality.
Day unflinchingly takes on these critics, assesses their arguments, then counters with his own well-reasoned and supported defense and explication of Carter's arguments.
The cogent analysis by the editors in their introductory essay and the explication of their conceptual framework is exemplary, as is the geographic and disciplinary coverage they have mustered.
In fact, he states baldly that "Digital certificates provide no actual security; it's a complete sham." There are several sit-up-and-take-notice statements like this scattered throughout the book, all of them backed up by solid explication and example.