Word Finder - explanation

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The act or process of explaining.

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The explanation was long and drawn-out.

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Something that explains, makes understandable.

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An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.

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A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.

He gave no explanation and headed toward her bedroom.

His only explanation was that he liked being alone.

She waited for an explanation, but he rode on in silence.

He would be expecting some explanation for her request, but what?

This fluctuation finds a parallel in the age at which the Levites were to serve; for neither has any reasonable explanation been found on the traditional view.

I couldn't come up with an explanation that would keep him from notifying the police.

There was probably an innocent explanation for the scene at the building.

She sought some explanation.

Miss Keller's later education is easy to understand and needs no further explanation than she has given.

I guess I owe you an explanation.

He waited for an explanation, but she had said all she was going to say on the subject.

He shook his head, not giving an explanation.

Without that degree of mental development and activity which perceives the necessity of superhuman creative power, no explanation of natural phenomena is possible.

She cut her explanation off short as Cade pulled into the drive.

Dean just looked at him, waiting for an explanation.

Kris gave no explanation, simply strode into the shadow world.

The other parts of the instrument will be readily understood from the figure without further explanation.

In seeking for an explanation we may perhaps trust, at least in part, the evidence of the Ethnicon itself.

If we resort solely to Judaism for explanation, it must be a Judaism of the Diaspora type.

These were introduced as a " sacred explanation" (iEpos X6yos) of the rules and prescriptions.

It is possible, of course, that each explanation is correct in particular cases, as the views are by no means mutually exclusive.

At any rate this hypothesis suggests an explanation of many hitherto inexplicable facts.

The explanation of this decay of interest does not lie upon the surface.

They accordingly resolved not to give up Malta unless Lord Whitworth, the British ambassador at Paris, "received a satisfactory explanation" relative to the Sebastiani report.

On the other hand, they are valid evidence for whatever is necessary to their own explanation, i.e.

It is generally considered that this is sufficient as an explanation of the existence of the pupa.

The explanation has to be sought in another direction.

This explanation, poor as it is, fails, however, in regard to some species.

The success it gained was doubtless due in some degree to the difficulty which most men had in comprehending it, for it was enwrapped in alluring mystery, but more to the confidence with which it was announced as being the long-looked-for key to the wonders of creation, since its promoters did not hesitate to term it the discovery of " the Natural System," though they condescended, by way of explanation to less exalted intellects than their own, to allow it the more moderate appellation of the Circular or, Quinary System.

The Quinarians, who boldly asserted that they had fathomed the mystery of creation, had been shown to be no wiser than other men, if indeed they had not utterly befooled themselves; for their theory at best could give no other explanation of things than that they were because they were.

He is credited with the invention of the anchor escapement for clocks, and also with the application of spiral springs to the balances of watches, together with the explanation of their action by the principle Ut tensio sic vis (1676).

This selection of one market for detailed examination does not rob our sketch of generality, as might at first be thought, since broadly the history of the development of one market is the history of the development of all, and on the whole the economic explanation of the evolution that has taken place may be universalized.

It will no doubt aid the understanding of the functions of the latter if some explanation is offered of the needs met by the former, which are sometimes known technically as " deferred deliveries."

The explanation of this change in the direction of indices of steadiness cannot be proved to consist in any peculiarity in the supplies of recent years.

The complete explanation of changes 1n these relations is still a mystery .

These theories endeavour to discover the means by which the exceptional occurrence is brought about; but the explanation is merely hypothetical, and we are not helped in conceiving the mode of the divine activity in the working of miracles.

Two important principles are illustrated by these thoughts, (1) that there is no absolute distinction between the organic and the inorganic, and (2) that the argument from final causes is no explanation of phenomena.

The appearance of the same Malayan words in localities so widely separated from each other, however, cannot be satisfactorily accounted for by any such explanation, and the theory is now more generally held that the two races are probably allied and may at some remote period of history have shared a common home.

Philosophical sanction and explanation of this belief was then found by bringing it into relation with the theory of the prima materia, which was identical in all bodies but received its actual form by the adjunction of qualities expressed by the Aristotelian elements - earth, air, fire and water.

The idea which has long prevailed that Baal was properly a sky-god affords no explanation of the local character of the many baals; on the other hand, on the theory of a higher development where the gods become heavenly or astral beings, the fact that ruder conceptions of nature were still retained (often in the unofficial but more popular forms of cult) is more intelligible.

The explanation here adopted as most probable was put forward by Professor Pischel of Berlin.

As against these theories the Eleatics maintained that the true explanation of things lies in the conception of a universal unity of being.

In explanation of these facts it is supposed that each element has a certain number of " units of affinity," which may be entirely, or only in part, engaged when it enters into combination with other elements; and in those cases in which the entire number of units of affinity are not engaged by other elements, it is supposed that those which are thus disengaged neutralize each other, as it were.

Hitherto no explanation has been given of these exceptions to what appears to be a law of almost universal application, viz.

The formation of this substance readily follows from Kekule's formula, while considerable difficulties are met with when one attempts an explanation based on Ladenburg's representation.

The first method needs no explanation.

Colour and Constitution.-In this article a summary of the theories which have been promoted in order to connect the colour of organic compounds with their constitution will be given, and the reader is referred to the article Colour for the physical explanation of this property, and to Vision for the physiological and psychological bearings.

It is remarkable that a great many polymorphous substances assume more symmetrical forms at higher temperatures, and a possible explanation of the increase in density of such compounds as silver iodide, &c., may be sought for in the theory that the formation of a more symmetrical configuration would involve a drawing together of the molecules, and consequently an increase in density.

These observations admit of ready explanation in the following manner.

The two most important points in his, as in all mystical theories, are first, his doctrine of the divine nature, and second, his explanation of the relation between God and human thought.