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1. The act of defining or making definite, distinct, or clear.
2. The formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, or term, as in a dictionary entry.
3. A condition of being definite, distinct, or clearly outlined.
4. The act or process of stating a precise meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning.
5. In optics, the sharpness of the image formed by an optical system.
6. In radio and television, the accuracy of sound or picture reproduction.

The presentation of defining devices that originate in an unlimited variety of techniques: humorous, figurative, and linguistic; utilizing witworthy words with the intention of amusing readers.

Be faithful even to the end.

1. The business or art of managing the monetary resources of an organization, a country, or a person.
2. The money necessary to do something; especially, to fund a project.
3. That branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets.
4. Etymology: "an end," from Middle French finance, "ending, settlement of a debt"; from Medieval Latin [700 to 1500] finis, "a payment in settlement, a fine or a tax", from Latin finis, "end". The notion is of "ending" (by satisfying) something that is due.

The French senses were gradually brought into English: "ransom" (1439), "taxation" (1489); the sense of "manage money" was first recorded in English in 1770.

Finances meaning "pecuniary resources" is from 1781. Financier is from 1618, originally of French tax farmers; sense of "capitalist" is first recorded in 1867.