general applicability
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneralandapplicability
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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applicability
noun[U]
uk/əˌplɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌæ.plɪk.əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of affecting or relating to a person ...
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This would reduce its advantage over those models that can learn about the environment and havegeneralapplicability(thus cutting out the metadecision stage).
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We return to the question of the moregeneralapplicabilityof this approach in the closing paragraphs of the paper.
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Moreover, there was no need to wait for these observations to yield laws ofgeneralapplicability, since these had been prescribed a priori in scripture.
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By contrast, anthropological studies have explicitly eschewed claims ofgeneralapplicabilityin favor of detailed, culture-specific descriptions of linguistic practice.
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Four strains of mice were used in the experiments to establish thegeneralapplicabilityof the results obtained.
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Answers to several key questions can potentially resolve important issues about thegeneralapplicability of these models to food sharing in nonmarket settings.
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Hence, it is highly desirable that any new estimator should provide both new ecological insight and be ofgeneralapplicability.
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The relatively small number of patients in each group limits thegeneralapplicabilityof the findings.
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Furthermore, sheep possess a different placental anatomy and physiology to many other mammals, including mice, thus bringing into question thegeneralapplicabilityof this result.
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Thus, it provides enough contextual variation for a robust assessment of thegeneralapplicabilityof the filter hypothesis.
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However, we expect thegeneralapplicabilityof this scheme to scaling down the lasing wavelength is very small.
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This entails a trade-off between the precision of the conceptual plan and itsgeneralapplicabilityat the early stages of design.
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Other things being equal, this condition allowing moregeneralapplicabilityof i-umlaut is to be preferred.
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More sophisticated dissipation models currently available seem to lack thegeneralapplicabilityof this simple model.
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A second reason is thegeneralapplicabilityof metapragmatic discourse.
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Calculation of information density revealed no significant differences between languages, indicating that the analysis hasgeneralapplicability.
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We evaluate our work in terms of performance andgeneralapplicability.
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