adequate description
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateanddescription
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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description
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/dɪˈskrɪp.ʃən/
something that tells you what something or someone ...
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For many purposes it is a completelyadequatedescriptionof the system.
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There is, however, reason to doubt that the levels-of-processing model is anadequatedescriptionof use of regular plurals in compounds.
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Anadequatedescriptionof the ultimate and proximate mechanism can integrate these views.
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These results suggest that the learning model proposed here is not anadequatedescriptionof the process by which consumers learn about consumption behavior.
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Attention is restricted to flow which is sufficiently shallow that the free-surface equations provide anadequatedescription.
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Is there anadequatedescriptionof the potential harms or risks that may occur as a result of the recommended management?
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None of these four things is anadequatedescriptionof the historiography produced since about 1975, and loosely called revisionist.
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This is anadequatedescriptionof the kind of experiences we shared over eight meetings.
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Is there anadequatedescriptionof the health benefits that are likely to be gained from the recommended management?
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I argue here that the cognitivist approach, within a "methodological individualism" framework, provides a moreadequatedescriptionof phenomena observed in the field.
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It has long been recognized thatadequatedescriptionof hearts possessing one big and one small ventricle is difficult and contentious.
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With allowancesfor the classical defects in the linear theory, it would appear to give anadequatedescriptionof the relaxation zone behind the corner.
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As discussed earlier, if the uninfected hosts are included the negative binomial provides anadequatedescriptionof the observations.
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Analysis of residuals (observed minus predicted correlations in the correlation matrix), showed that most values were below 0.05, suggesting that a four-factor model gave anadequatedescriptionof the data.
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In her overview of some of the problems related to the concept of fossilisation, she shows there is basically no explanation (and even noadequatedescription) of fossilisation.
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In accord with previous findings, the researchers found that even by six years of age only 50 % of the children were capable of providing anadequatedescription.
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Mathematically it provides a challenge to the applied analyst in that there are multiple scales which must be resolved to obtain anadequatedescriptionof the physical process.
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Although it had a strong study design and appeared to use appropriate methods of allocation, it lacked anadequatedescriptionof the actual methods of randomization.
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As a consequence, both proposals fall short of giving an empiricallyadequatedescriptionof the data and fall short of making principled predictions on patterns of subject omission and realization.
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In the end, the data show that candidates differ greatly in some districts but not much in others, with 'moderate extremism' as anadequatedescriptionfor the typical race.
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