Explanatory
adjective
Used to explain or make something clear.
She included an explanatory note with the gift.
Often appears as...
- explanatory note
- explanatory statement
adjective
In a manner that serves to explain a theory or phenomenon.
He gave a detailed explanatory lecture on quantum physics.
Often appears as...
- explanatory lecture
- explanatory analysis
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Used to explain or make something clear.
She included an explanatory note with the gift.
Often appears as...
- explanatory note
- explanatory statement
adjective
In a manner that serves to explain a theory or phenomenon.
He gave a detailed explanatory lecture on quantum physics.
Often appears as...
- explanatory lecture
- explanatory analysis
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Making Clear
Use 'explanatory' to make complex things easier to understand.
His explanatory diagram simplified the scientific concept.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Addition
'Explanatory' often introduces additional information that answers possible questions.
The report included an explanatory section on the research methods used.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarification
An 'explanatory' note resolves confusion or adds clarity, not more questions.
Please add an explanatory note to clarify this paragraph.
Pro Tip 1/3Making Clear
Use 'explanatory' to make complex things easier to understand.
His explanatory diagram simplified the scientific concept.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Addition
'Explanatory' often introduces additional information that answers possible questions.
The report included an explanatory section on the research methods used.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarification
An 'explanatory' note resolves confusion or adds clarity, not more questions.
Please add an explanatory note to clarify this paragraph.
Pro Tip 1/3Making Clear
Use 'explanatory' to make complex things easier to understand.
His explanatory diagram simplified the scientific concept.
Pro Tip 2/3Detail Addition
'Explanatory' often introduces additional information that answers possible questions.
The report included an explanatory section on the research methods used.
Pro Tip 3/3Clarification
An 'explanatory' note resolves confusion or adds clarity, not more questions.
Please add an explanatory note to clarify this paragraph.
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The real reason for...
knowledge throughout your life in memories and the point about Bayesian decision theory is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with sensory evidence to generate new beliefs and I put the formula up there I'm not gonna explain to you what that formulas but it's very beautiful and it has real beauty and real explanatory power and
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Daniel Wolpert: The real...
is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with your sensory evidence to generate new beliefs. And I've put the formula up there. I'm not going to explain what that formula is, but it's very beautiful. And it has real beauty and real explanatory power.
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The truth about unwanted...
When we see this separateness of wanting, liking and learning, this is where we find an explanatory framework for understanding what researchers call arousal nonconcordance. Nonconcordance, very simply, is when there is a lack of predictive relationship
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Ben Goldacre: Battling...
isn't a kind of nasty, carping activity; it's socially useful. But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. That's what happens in academic journals,
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David Deutsch: A new way...
What does that mean? Well, an explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen; because the explanatory role of Persephone's marriage contract could be played equally well by infinitely many other ad hoc entities.
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Sleep is your superpower...
Unlike many of the other factors that we know are associated with aging, for example changes in the physical structure of the brain, that's fiendishly difficult to treat. But that sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory puzzle
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David Deutsch: Chemical...
what was happening there, in reality. The one physical system, the brain, contains an accurate working model of the other, the quasar. Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model,
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Chimps "Mourn"...
of another I am reluctant to use that word my colleagues might have different opinion but I think for the most part were reluctant to use the word because it doesn't seem to really give us any extra explanatory information they
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What's the connection...
in the explanatory puzzle of aging and Alzheimer's disease is exciting because we may be able to do something about it. What if we could actually augment human sleep and try to improve the quality of that deep sleep in midlife,
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After billions of years...
and then, in some ancestor species of ours, explanatory knowledge. For the first time in the universe, for all we know. Explanatory knowledge is the defining adaptation of our species.
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The real reason for...
knowledge throughout your life in memories and the point about Bayesian decision theory is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with sensory evidence to generate new beliefs and I put the formula up there I'm not gonna explain to you what that formulas but it's very beautiful and it has real beauty and real explanatory power and
Video examples
Daniel Wolpert: The real...
is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with your sensory evidence to generate new beliefs. And I've put the formula up there. I'm not going to explain what that formula is, but it's very beautiful. And it has real beauty and real explanatory power.
Video examples
The truth about unwanted...
When we see this separateness of wanting, liking and learning, this is where we find an explanatory framework for understanding what researchers call arousal nonconcordance. Nonconcordance, very simply, is when there is a lack of predictive relationship
Video examples
Ben Goldacre: Battling...
isn't a kind of nasty, carping activity; it's socially useful. But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. That's what happens in academic journals,
Video examples
David Deutsch: A new way...
What does that mean? Well, an explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen; because the explanatory role of Persephone's marriage contract could be played equally well by infinitely many other ad hoc entities.
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
Unlike many of the other factors that we know are associated with aging, for example changes in the physical structure of the brain, that's fiendishly difficult to treat. But that sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory puzzle
Video examples
David Deutsch: Chemical...
what was happening there, in reality. The one physical system, the brain, contains an accurate working model of the other, the quasar. Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model,
Video examples
Chimps "Mourn"...
of another I am reluctant to use that word my colleagues might have different opinion but I think for the most part were reluctant to use the word because it doesn't seem to really give us any extra explanatory information they
Video examples
What's the connection...
in the explanatory puzzle of aging and Alzheimer's disease is exciting because we may be able to do something about it. What if we could actually augment human sleep and try to improve the quality of that deep sleep in midlife,
Video examples
After billions of years...
and then, in some ancestor species of ours, explanatory knowledge. For the first time in the universe, for all we know. Explanatory knowledge is the defining adaptation of our species.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.
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Caroline Polachek
American Musician
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.
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Maurice Allais
French Economist
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
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Gregory Bateson
British Scientist
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.
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Yorgos Lanthimos
Greek Director
Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.
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Nancy Cartwright
American Actress
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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David Hepworth
British Journalist
Radio people can't entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don't need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers.
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Brian Greene
American Physicist
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
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Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.
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Ridley Scott
British Director
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.
Quote examples
Caroline Polachek
American Musician
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.
Quote examples
Maurice Allais
French Economist
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
Quote examples
Gregory Bateson
British Scientist
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.
Quote examples
Yorgos Lanthimos
Greek Director
Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.
Quote examples
Nancy Cartwright
American Actress
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
Quote examples
David Hepworth
British Journalist
Radio people can't entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don't need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers.
Quote examples
Brian Greene
American Physicist
Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.
Quote examples
Gad Saad
Canadian Scientist
The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!
Quote examples
Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.
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