Explanation: nf (word from the Latin explicatio).
The word “explanation” has several meanings:
Action of explaining, its result.
1. Development intended to make something understood (commentary, clarification).
Explanations of Scripture (exegesis, interpretation).
Explanations attached to a text (annotation, gloss, note, remark, scoli), to a map (legend).
Explanation of text: literary, philosophical, stylistic study of a text.
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