complete explanation

collocation in English

meaningsofcompleteandexplanation

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complete
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpliːt/
us
/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcomplete explanation

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Acompleteexplanationof animal behavior requires an evolutionary account.
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On the other hand, demography may not offer acompleteexplanation.
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However, it should not be regarded as acompleteexplanation.
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And a search for a morecompleteexplanationof evolution of institutions as endogenous to the economic system is in progress.
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They did not argue that the use of rime analogies provided acompleteexplanationof early decoding behavior.
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These natural properties provide acompleteexplanationof the reasons we have for reacting in these ways to things that are good or valuable.
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These are interesting topics of research and are an integral par t of acompleteexplanationof language change.
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Nevertheless, these factors are unlikely to provide acompleteexplanation.
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However, a detailed andcompleteexplanationis still lacking.
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However, this does not seem to offer acompleteexplanation.
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While it is hardly surprising that some measures of political cynicism are associated with non-voting, such factors clearly do not provide acompleteexplanation.
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The challenging task is to determine how exactly to integrate the two types of approaches for acompleteexplanation.
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A morecompleteexplanationrequires a consideration of domestic economic conditions and how these conditions changed government's calculations when designing financial policy.
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To obtain a morecompleteexplanationof purpose, it is necessary to identify any causal relationships that exist between the individual processes.
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It cannot serve, however, as the sole andcompleteexplanation.
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We study a similar flow and offer a morecompleteexplanationof the compressibility effects in shear layers.
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Each subset of it that contains one less element is not acompleteexplanation.
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Malingering did not seem acompleteexplanation, since many continued in care even after receiving such a report.
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The physical model of the eye, however, did not provide a basis for acompleteexplanationof the process of vision.
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