An explanation is a statement about how or why something is the way it is. If you're failing math, you'd better come up with a good explanation to give to your parents.
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible;
Noun
thought that makes something comprehensible
Noun
a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"
Noun
the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident"
n.
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting;
the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the
explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
n.
That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
explanation.
n.
The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains
it; definition; interpretation; sense.
n.
A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives,
with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences;
reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
Explanation
Different explanations [of the Trinity].4.
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible;
Usage Examples
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
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