The phrase "actual understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a genuine or true comprehension of a subject or concept.
Example: "After reviewing the material several times, I finally achieved an actual understanding of the complex theories involved."
Alternatives: "true comprehension" or "genuine grasp".
Someone comes up with arches, and it's like, 'Arches are great!'" With physics, he says, "you can actually understand what's going to work and why". Only recently, he says, have we begun to move into that phase of actual understanding with artificial intelligence.
Observing those special qualities is where actual understanding might begin.
"We've allowed modeling to get way ahead of our actual understanding," Cohen continued.
But there was a second, slower, more significant opening, which required actual understanding -- of Buddhism, for example, and the traditional arts of judo and the tea ceremony.
Who are these (presumably) otherwise normal, functioning adults who are caught up in a movement about which they have – in my direct experience – almost no actual understanding?
Work with Paramecium has contributed to the actual understanding of certain aspects of exocytosis regulation, including membrane fusion.
Company executives say their technique is based on the work of Israeli researchers in the 1990s who studied how babies understand and respond to the moods of adult speech before understanding actual language.
This evidence, like earlier findings in finance, points to the usefulness of data on actual expectations for understanding economic behavior.
The emphasis on square footage is placing the onus on brokers to explain to both buyers and sellers its actual significance in understanding value.
Were aliens to arrive and mistake this for a handbook to understanding actual Earth girls, I wouldn't blame them for turning around, scurrying back to their ships and light-speeding it out of here, squealing.
They also criticize the strictly normative concept for being of only limited use in understanding actual processes of legitimation.
