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explainable

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ex·plain  (k-spln)
v. ex·plained, ex·plain·ing, ex·plains
v.tr.
1. To make plain or comprehensible.
2. To define; expound: We explained our plan to the committee.
3.
a. To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify: explain an error.
b. To offer reasons for the actions, beliefs, or remarks of (oneself).
v.intr.
To make something plain or comprehensible: Let me explain.
Phrasal Verb:
explain away
1. To dismiss or get rid of by or as if by explaining.
2. To minimize by explanation.

[Middle English explanen, from Latin explnre : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + plnus, clear; see pel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

ex·plaina·ble adj.
Synonyms: explain, elucidate, expound, explicate, interpret, construe
These verbs mean to make understandable the nature or meaning of something. Explain is the most widely applicable: The professor explained the obscure symbols.
To elucidate is to throw light on something complex: "Man's whole life and environment have been laid open and elucidated" (Thomas Carlyle).
Expound and explicate imply detailed and usually learned and lengthy exploration or analysis: "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding" (John Marshall). "Ordinary language philosophers tried to explicate the standards of usage" (Jerrold J. Katz).
To interpret is to reveal the underlying meaning of something by the application of special knowledge or insight: "If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility" (William Butler Yeats).
Construe involves putting a particular construction or interpretation on something: "I take the official oath today . . . with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules" (Abraham Lincoln).
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.explainable - capable of being understood; "explainable phenomena"
explicable - capable of being explicated or accounted for; "explicable behavior"
Translations
explainable [ɪksˈpleɪnəbl] ADJexplicable
explainable
adjerklärlich; this is easily explainabledas lässt sich leicht erklären; that is explainable by …das lässt sich durch … erklären
explainable [ɪksˈpleɪnəbl] adjspiegabile
explainable [ɪksˈpleɪnəbl] adjspiegabile


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At the moment when it was most easy for him to do so; at the moment when it became most explainable--so completely explainable that there can be no other explanation.
By an accident wholly explainable, the viscount and chevalier, aristocrats by nature, came instantly into unison; they recognized each other at once as men belonging to the same sphere.
 
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