fine detail
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffineanddetail
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fine
adjective
uk/faɪn/us/faɪn/
good or good enough; healthy ...
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detail
noun
uk/ˈdiː.teɪl/us/dɪˈteɪl/us/ˈdiː.teɪl/
a single piece of information or fact ...
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(Definition offineanddetailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffine detail
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It must be, then, that in their essential properties and even down tofinedetail, languages are cast in the same mold.
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Consequently, these chapters contain particularly full accounts with valuablefinedetailof the individual processes and organisms, much based on personal research.
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He derives the maximum degree of expressiveness from its rich and transparent orchestration, balancing broad gesture againstfinedetail.
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For example, recent work using a visual fixation task with infants suggests thatfinedetailis indeed coded in their perceptual lexical representations.
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It may be that resolution offinedetailis critically dependent on the fine-scale integrity of the retinotectal map.
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The electronic signal triggers oscillators and filters and the envelope shape can be manipulated infinedetail.
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Visual acuity is the ability to spatially resolve objects, such as the detection of a distant object or thefinedetailof a near object.
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This offset has no significant effect on the shapes of the curves which record identicalfinedetail.
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Assume we know in veryfinedetailhow our brain works, while a person performs musical activity.
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A re-calculation of spatial resolving power using measured focal ratios from cryosectioning reveals a low ability to discriminatefinedetail.
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This volume appears targeted to a system level approach, rather than thefinedetailof organism interactions, and as such is a useful introductory text for tropical agro-ecosystems.
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However, this broad distinction between perception tasks (apparent evidence for more holistic representation) and production tasks (apparent evidence forfinedetailin representations) is itself too simple.
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The historian will always only be able to access family life through a gauze which obscures much of thefinedetailwe know characterizes family life today.
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He also suggests that urban and social historians should engage more intensively with suburban employment and industry and focus on thefinedetailof cultures once dismissed as 'cultureless'.
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First, because it follows the same children through a range of experimental conditions, we are able to see thefinedetailof the grammar of binding and ellipsis.
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The huge volume of material makes writing difficult, documenting the subject with suchfinedetailas to defy convenient metanarratives, an experience shared by many pioneers of large database research.
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However, it is important for us to know what thefinedetailof this agreement's content is going to be.
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I do not want to go into this matter in toofinedetail.
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We await thefinedetailand hope that the consultation process will be open, transparent and inclusive.
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