The phrase "aids to understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing tools, resources, or methods that help clarify or enhance comprehension of a subject.
Example: "The diagrams and charts in the textbook serve as aids to understanding complex concepts in physics."
Alternatives: "assists in comprehension" or "facilitates understanding".
When sung, elaborate literary artifices and unnatural word orders would present audiences with unnecessary problems, but simple words and repetitions of phrases provide aids to understanding.
Lincoln Center had been Avis to Carnegie Hall's Hertz, and I thought, why be a car?" She surrounded her innovative programs with aids to understanding: lectures, symposiums and concerts guiding listeners toward "the art of listening," as she calls it.
Just as Japan's economy, mired in recurrent recessions for 11 years, now constitutes a huge drag on the world's economy, the underperformance of the world's second richest country in scientific matters exacts a steep, but invisible cost in issues as diverse as fighting malaria and AIDS to understanding global warming.
NMR methods are therefore powerful aids to understanding plant metabolism and physiology.
Some systems are designed to be used for coastal mapping, others as aids to understanding how key processes create different coastal features.
Whilst they are clearly useful aids to understanding cellular events, even at their best, they are not sufficient by themselves, relying on extensive textual descriptions to explain what is shown pictorially.
This theoretical analysis does not explain actual economic fluctuations; it is merely an aid to understanding them.
As an aid to understanding the original text early synagogues read the Torah in both Hebrew and the vernacular (which 2000 years ago was the Aramaic Targum).
The individual terms may be adjusted to suit local conditions and may be used as an aid to understanding the various temperature characteristics discussed in the next section.
The prolific mathematician Ian Stewart was as breezily entertaining as ever in Flatterland (Macmillan, £14.99), although this extension of a single idea - imagining a two-dimensional world as an aid to understanding higher dimensions - tried some readers' patience.
Nevertheless, David Lai, who grew up in China and is now a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, told me that the argument is useful as an aid to understanding the language and thoughts of others.
