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Webster 1913 Edition
Clearance
Clear′ance
(klēr′ans)
, Noun.
1.
The act of clearing;
as, to make a thorough
. clearance
2.
A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped
clearances
. Durke
3.
Clear or net profit.
Trollope.
4.
(Mach.)
The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages.
Clearance space
(Steam engine)
, the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston’s clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Clearance
CLEARANCE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
clearance
clearance
English
Noun
clearance (countable and uncountable, plural clearances)
- The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
- The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
- The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
- A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
- The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
- He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists
- A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
- A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
- (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
- (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
- (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
- (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
- Clear or net profit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Trollope to this entry?)
Translations
act of clearing or something cleared
distance between two moving objects
height or width of a passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage
permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel
permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
sale of merchandise at a reduced price
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finance: processing of payments at a clearing house
medicine: removal of harmful substances from the blood
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billiards: act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit
soccer: The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending