preliminary exploration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreliminaryandexploration
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preliminary
adjective[before noun]
uk/prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/us/prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/
coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing ...
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exploration
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌek.spləˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌek.spləˈreɪ.ʃən/
the activity of searching and finding out ...
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(Definition ofpreliminaryandexplorationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although our approach seemed most appropriate for testing our predictions, we also conduct apreliminaryexplorationof this issue.
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Preliminaryexplorationshows that such graphical construction would be more of interest to computational linguists, educators and communications protocol designers than to compiler writers.
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Monozygotic twins discordant for major depression : apreliminaryexplorationof the role of environmental experiences in the aetiology and course of illness.
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Our review of the existing literature as well as ourpreliminaryexplorationof the available data allow us to obtain two relevant conclusions.
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This paper has offered apreliminaryexplorationof who represented railways, what was represented, and to whom the representations were directed.
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It is apreliminaryexplorationof the relationship between development ideas and institutions which will, no doubt, be qualified or substantiated by evidence from further field and archival work.
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To perform apreliminaryexplorationof the causes of this behavior, we have simulated the effects on neutral variability of multilocus balancing selection with negative epistasis.
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The identification procedure can be based on optical sensor measurements as well aspreliminaryexploration of the surface by the robot tip using force and tactile measurements.
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The report will be apreliminaryexplorationof a wide range of possibilities including comparisons of experience in other countries.
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Data on geology and coal resources were updated, andpreliminaryexplorationactivities were started.
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This party is conductedpreliminaryexplorationof the field, continued to conduct mining and drilling operations, and technological studies of copper-molybdenum ores.
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Instead, research on case-based design so far represents only preliminary explorations into a vast space.
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On the other hand, from geological surveys and preliminary explorations it may appear to have a reasonable chance, but that would not be known till afterwards.
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