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What does perspicuous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  2. (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  3. (rare) Transparent; translucent.
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He recognised this way of looking at the unusual as profound and perspicuous.
One neatly arranged, rich and perspicuous, the other unpredictable, plunged into anarchy, but vital and commanding.
Unfortunately, the import of these qualifications has been less than perspicuous.
The tongue of him to whom they incline is foreign, and this is the perspicuous Arabic tongue.
Montague suggested a perspicuous way to capture the principle of compositionality formally.
He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning.

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