key concept

collocation in English

meaningsofkeyandconcept

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key
adjective
uk
/kiː/us
/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition ofkeyandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkey concept

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Akeyconceptis that of an attractor.
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Akeyconceptin our type system is the idea of stability.
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Thekeyconceptbehind this kind of context is individualizing the user interface according to the current task.
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Transformation, then, seems to be akeyconceptfor understanding the ritual practices.
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But it is not moral relativism but epistemic relativism which is presented to us as thekeyconceptof a post-processual theory of knowledge.
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Here, central concepts such as 'age-culture' or 'age-programmes' are explained and related to thekeyconceptof social citizenship.
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It describes how 'learned attention', akeyconceptin contemporary associative and connectionist theories of animal and human learning, explains these effects.
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It involves a spectacular redefinition, out of the blue, of thekeyconceptunder investigation.
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Thekeyconcepthere is to what extent society is harmed.
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Reflection is currently akeyconceptin teacher education.
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Akeyconceptto guide the invention is the expected complexity for a term which can roughly be predicted by structural induction.
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Political distance is thekeyconceptin the spatial analogy.
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The reduction of spatial scale in itself enables a more holistic approach to be taken to thekeyconceptof social relationships.
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Thekeyconcept, however, was not adaptation or selection, but mismatch, the idea that our way of life can change much faster than our genes.
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It must be stressed that calling attention to disagreements and ambiguities in the usage of akeyconceptdoes not, by itself, invalidate that concept.
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Support for democracy has been akeyconceptin assessing public demand for democracy.
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For example, an article may refer to somekeyconceptonly as a part of a literature review or a reference to work previously accomplished.
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We need to introduce the notion of a random dynamical system, which is thekeyconceptin the further analysis.
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Akeyconceptin supply-side economics is the "wedge," the difference between what employers pay for labor and the after-tax income of employees.
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Onekeyconceptis "self governance": that what can be handled in the private sphere should not be undertaken by government.
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