Sentence examples for a partial grasp from inspiring English sources

This movement in understanding is necessary for human beings because as animals they only ever have a partial grasp of the natures of things, insofar as their knowledge depends upon always incomplete and partial sensible experience of the world.

Niko (Andre Robinson) is a 10-year-old hero, grown for the job but prematurely out of his cocoon; he has only a partial grasp of how the world works.

Years of striving to understand parasite modifications to the RBC have led to a partial grasp of the nature of the remodelled iRBC and the mechanisms used by the parasite to achieve these alterations.

Some hold that idiolects in this sense do not exist, or even that the notion is incoherent, but are happy to use the word 'idiolect' to mean something else, such as a person's partial grasp of, or pattern of deviance from, language that is inherently communal.

In the present study we report a partial, fragmented grasp of what it means to eat for health.

Although attractive, this approach is not feasible in the olfactory system where the number of receptors is high in all species (D. melanogaster being among the most tractable) and the number of odors is infinite: every single study will always grasp but a partial view of the olfactome.

That is to say, each particular function of life grasps only a partial aspect of life and cannot stand for the whole of life.

Ruiz-Mirazo et al. ([ 67]) grasped it as a partial decoupling between the genotypic and the phenotypic domains, which in turn allows for the development of free compositionality and the gaining of a higher complexity at the level of genotype - that is to open wide the door for open-ended evolution.

To investigate changes in functional connectivity between pairs of grasping network nodes, we conducted a partial correlation analysis between the BOLD time series of directly connected nodes of the left hemisphere using Matlab R2013b (MathWorks).

The belief that some thing is accidental or spontaneous can be based only on an inadequate grasp of the thing's causal explanation, on a partial and "mutilated" familiarity with it.

As part of the Genomic Research on All Salmonids Project (GRASP), an Atlantic salmon BAC library was produced from a partial EcoRI restriction enzyme digest of DNA from a Norwegian aquaculture strain male fish (CHORI-214 segments 1-3).