obvious advantage

collocation in English

meaningsofobviousandadvantage

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obvious
adjective
uk
/ˈɒb.vi.əs/
us
/ˈɑːb.vi.əs/
easy to see, recognize, ...
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advantage
noun
uk
/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/
us
/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofobviousandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobvious advantage

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Theobviousadvantageof this tie is that we have the group structure on one side and the matrix structure on the other side.
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Theobviousadvantageis that such instruments may be more sensitive.
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This is anobviousadvantagein comparison to the usual lock-step approach that, at best, accumulates more and more unrelated (and often arbitrarily selected) information.
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Theobviousadvantageof relations over functions is in increased expressiveness, which makes it possible to reason about specifications, and non-deterministic and partial functions.
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Theobviousadvantageof forced mixing is the saving of wall length made possible by it for a given pressure recovery.
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The approach of restricting data-parallelism to a particular built-in data type has theobviousadvantageof ease of implementation and optimization.
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Moreover, no visible capital was made out of theobviousadvantageof insight which a period of more than three decades should necessarily confer.
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Theobviousadvantageof this algorithm is that it does not require any conjectures based on the physical intuition.
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An important but notobviousadvantageof the model based multi-camera approach, especially in comparison to stereo vision, becomes more significant when working with microscopes.
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There is anobviousadvantageto seed fig attractiveness to frugivores.
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It is thus to theobviousadvantageof the speaker to allow prefixes and suffixes to attach to the same stem.
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Preventive technology has anobviousadvantageover therapeutic technology.
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Theobviousadvantageof this approach is that the information it provides is more likely to be heeded by teachers because it addresses issues they themselves have identified as important.
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But theobviousadvantageis that we obtain a rapid visual diachronic overview of the evolution of the nasal vowel pronunciation in the course of the past decades.
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Naturally occurring child language has often been studied in its normal setting, namely the home, and developmental observations conducted in their natural settings have theobviousadvantageof ecological validity.
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Its mostobviousadvantageis the superb range of illustrations, from the golden tombs of amber to vivid examples of living insects and striking reconstructions of extinct forms.
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A fourth andobviousadvantageof our present way of working is that we thereby largely eliminate unrequited exports.
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I should like to suggest several reasons that go beyond theobviousadvantageof being able to speak more confidently when abroad on holiday.
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In those circumstances the corporation is at anobviousadvantagecompared with the private citizen.
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The result is that you are adding another anomaly, and an expensive anomaly, to the law without anyobviousadvantageat all.
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