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What does illustration mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
  2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
  3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
  4. A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)
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The drawings show the upper tag end 40 tied in another water knot for convenience of illustration.
The final part offers an illustration of how embracing alethic functionalism may help the relativist.
Statistics provide a compelling illustration of how labor-intensive restaurants are compared to other industries.
What kind of representational strategies are we using when we use photography or illustration featuring people?
Cranach's woodcut known as Passional Christi und Antichristi is an illustration for Philipp Melanchthon's 1521 prayer book.
Let me develop that illustration in a familiar way, contrasting a Christmas tree with an apple tree.

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