exhaustive description

collocation in English

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exhaustive
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzɔː.stɪv/us
/ɪɡˈzɑː.stɪv/
complete and ...
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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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(Definition ofexhaustiveanddescriptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The subjects' task was to report freely what they perceived by giving anexhaustivedescriptionof the main visual properties.
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Yet, even if knowledge concerning abnormal behaviour is available,exhaustivedescriptionmay be sometimes too cumbersome compared with a model of normal behaviour.
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The subjects' task was to report freely what they perceived by giving anexhaustivedescriptionof the main visual properties.
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For a set of phrases to be truly representative of document content, it must provide anexhaustivedescriptionof the entities discussed in the text.
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Exhaustivedescriptionof an area from one point of reference is, accordingly, impossible; its character changes with the point of view from which it is viewed.
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The vade mecum does not aim to provide anexhaustivedescriptionof the rules.
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Is that a quiteexhaustivedescriptionof what might happen?
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He cannot, however, be expected to give anexhaustivedescriptionof every circumstance in which every practice will or will not be anti-competitive.
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I do not believe that that is anexhaustivedescription.
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A large appendix gives a detailed andexhaustivedescriptionof all the information he had been able to obtain on the reefs of the world.
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In principle, one could give anexhaustivedescriptionof any behavior by specifying all of the values of all of the above parameters.
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Additional tensors composed of products of three or more spin matrices are needed only for theexhaustivedescriptionof polarization of particles/nuclei with spin.
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