basic mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandmechanism
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Abasicmechanismwill already allow in situ wh-phrases in multiple questions to receive scope.
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It is experience dependent in which thebasicmechanisminvolves progressive pruning of "excess" synapses concomitant to maturation.
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In addition, we may raise some questions about thebasicmechanismof news reporting.
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Its etiologic pathogen, along with thebasicmechanismof immune allergy causing angiitis, have yet to be clarified.
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Of course, the complexity enveloping a pattern in each specific setting has to be partially cleared so as to get at itsbasicmechanism.
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So on such an account, thebasicmechanismof intermodular integration will be this domain-general, structure-mapping capability rather than language.
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Thus, abasicmechanismof left neglect could be a deficit of exogenous, or stimulus-related, orienting of attention toward left-sided targets.
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Thebasicmechanismhas been investigated thoroughly in numerous experiments and simulations.
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However, in what follows, we will explicate thebasicmechanismthat allows one to trace developments of substitution possibilities, the core of successful ageing.
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But time travel is not needed for thebasicmechanismto apply to current choices.
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Thebasicmechanismfor steady flow, however, is similar.
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Ports provide thebasicmechanismfor communicating with the external world.
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In the next section, we show that thebasicmechanismis instead that a high makes inflation and the output gap more predictable.
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The above small example illustrates thebasicmechanismof this model.
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Unfortunately, architecture as a discipline currently has no means of validating an architectural pattern, so thebasicmechanismfor pattern formation doesn't exist.
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Thisbasicmechanismgenerates spectral lines like those observed in the light of stars.
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From thebasicmechanismof ionization waves, it is obvious that losses originating from diffusion to the tube wall are important.
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Record types are there proposed as thebasicmechanismto achieve modularization.
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An intelligent application of the present knowledge in cavitating flow requires some insight into thebasicmechanismof cavitation.
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