meaningful concept

collocation in English

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meaningful
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fəl/
intended to show meaning, ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sept/us
/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition ofmeaningfulandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Also, the expansion estimator has been expressed in terms of the number of unobserved shadow species corresponding to each observed species, an ecologicallymeaningfulconcept.
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Yet in physics absolute motion is not ameaningfulconcept.
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We have reviewed the fact that in physics there is nomeaningfulconceptof absolute motion.
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What one finds is a brief synthesis stating simply that ' race is not a biologically, genetically, anthropologically or sociologicallymeaningfulconcept' (p. 19).
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To obtain ameaningfulconceptof a 'complexity d factor', we then have to also limit the complexity of the polynomial combinations of e-complexity functions we shall employ.
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I think that it was intended to mean—if that is ameaningfulconceptin this context—two things.
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That is ameaningfulconcept, but we are a long way from it.
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Will it ensure that equal validity is ameaningfulconcept?
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It is not ameaningfulconceptfor the past.
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I accept that there is nomeaningfulconceptof an average cost of doing something: different businesses will have different costs.
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This technique works but it introduces a possible combinatoric explosion of uninteresting concepts that simply combine meaningful concepts without adding meaning themselves.
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