irrelevant detail
collocation in Englishmeaningsofirrelevantanddetail
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irrelevant
adjective
uk/ɪˈrel.ə.vənt/us/ɪˈrel.ə.vənt/
not related to what is being discussed or considered and therefore ...
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detail
noun
uk/ˈdiː.teɪl/us/dɪˈteɪl/us/ˈdiː.teɪl/
a single piece of information or fact ...
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(Definition ofirrelevantanddetailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We have deliberately chosen simple, well-known ones that allow us to illustrate the basic ideas without burdening the reader withirrelevantdetail.
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When these two events are widely separated in space but very near in time, their relative order is normally either anirrelevantdetailor entirely meaningless.
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The reason for giving the tribunal that discretion is that it is important not to lengthen the proceedings withirrelevantdetail.
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So often one discovered that a quiteirrelevantdetailhad captured the child's imagination far more than the particular thing one wanted him to see.
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She diverted attention to a great deal of what seemed to me to be largelyirrelevantdetail.
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The new regulations retained the essential safeguards and eliminatedirrelevantdetail.
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I was referring to the circular which emphasised the serious cost to business of planning delays, whether due to inefficiency or nit-picking involvement inirrelevantdetail.
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The formulae computing the residue will be 'local' and very simple; locality by stripping all the expressions from irrelevant details makes them computable.
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When the problem has been generalised in this way, what should remain is a skeleton problem, with no irrelevant details.
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Locality by stripping all the expressions from irrelevant details makes them computable.
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The question is whether one would have taken the opportunity to avoid or reduce the risk, not whether one would have changed the scenario in someirrelevantdetail.
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Without spelling out the irrelevant details, the constraints that prevent vowel hiatus conspire to prevent the parsing of the second vowel in a sequence.
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The reason is that decisionmakers simplify, misunderstand, lack ability, miscalculate, forget, and make evaluations of alternatives that depend on seemingly irrelevant details about how a problem is framed.
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They contain irrelevant details, which are usually the hallmark of genuineness.
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From that moment, he plunged into some interesting but, for this purpose, wholly irrelevant details on the subject of recruitment.
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Television is obsessed with irrelevant details.
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The theoretical representation of the sentence is given right below, omitting, again, irrelevant details. 6.
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This allows attention to be focused on pertinent details and avoids confusion from looking at irrelevant details.
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