explicans

== English == === Etymology === From Latin explicāns. === Noun === explicans (plural explicantia) The underlying meaning of an explicandum. == Latin == === Etymology === Present active participle of explicō (“unfold”). === Participle === explicāns (genitive explicantis, adverb explicanter); third-declension one-termination participle unfolding, unfurling, uncoiling, loosening deploying, extending, displaying disentangling, arranging, regulating, settling, adjusting developing, setting forth, exhibiting ==== Declension ==== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective.