main goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandgoal
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofmainandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain goal
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Itsmaingoalwas immediacy in the interface.
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Ourmaingoalis to design algorithms for which one can derive non-trivial worst-case performance bounds.
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At the time of the recording mymaingoalwas to investigate the presence\\absence of a release burst, rather than duration differences.
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Themaingoalof the semantic training was to simultaneously activate the semantic and the word specific orthographic characteristics of the target word.
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Theirmaingoalhas been to make the right trade-off between time and space costs.
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Themaingoalof the present study is to make conceptual headway.
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Itsmaingoalis to explore the importance of assumptions about stationarity used by learning agents.
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Ourmaingoalis to determine the effects of local indeterminacy and the presence of sunspot shocks on asset pricing.
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Similar strategies of engendering artefacts also featured in earlier studies when identifying women was themaingoal.
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Themaingoalwas to provide in-flight health monitoring capability for gas path faults.
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Ourmaingoalis to demonstrate that characterizations by excluded minors are very often inappropriate for certain classes.
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Themaingoalof the analysis is to identify the relationship between the modeling strategy and the double dividend results.
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Themaingoalof this study was to examine the joint effects of population subdivision and mating system on genetic load and inbreeding depression.
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Ourmaingoalwas to compare patterns of inheritance and condition dependence of genitalic versus general morphological traits.
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Themaingoalof the paper is to present two results concerning the periodic points of sup-norm non-expansive maps.
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His view is that themaingoalof institutions is to reduce transaction costs, by reducing uncertainty, increasing available information and guaranteeing property rights.
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The most prominent part is the display of the subgoals, and themaingoalto be proven.
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Themaingoalof this paper is to prove the local rigidity of certain actions of this type.
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