Extracted from the American National Standard, Crawler, Locomotive and Truck Cranes, ANSI B30.5b-1985, with the. permission of the Publisher the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 345 E. 47th StrÃ¦t, New York, New York 10017.
clarification (Noun). 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 feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent. statementâin this case, a clarificationâmay be required, stating that the teachers then have time to appeal their dismissal before the termination takes effect. A clarification is not the same as a correction, which corrects factual errors in a published story.
Glossary: C. An Educator's Guide to Critical Thinking Terms and Concepts. clarify: To make easier to understand, to free from confusion or ambiguity, to remove obscurities. Clarity is a fundamental perfection of thought and clarification a fundamental aim in critical thinking. Students often do not see why it is important to write and speak clearly, why it is important to say what you mean and mean what you say. The key to clarification is concrete, specific examples.