The phrase "in descriptive terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when someone is describing something in detail or providing a description of something. For example: - "In descriptive terms, the painting was a vibrant mix of colors and textures." - "The travel brochure described the island in vivid descriptive terms, making it sound like paradise." In both of these examples, the phrase "in descriptive terms" is used to indicate that the description is detailed and full of specific details and imagery.
This gap, created by the difference in descriptive terms used in the description of data and in the expression of hypotheses, means that evidential relations cannot be formally specified and that data cannot support one theory or hypothesis to the exclusion of all alternatives.
This is neither good nor bad, but a consequence that needs pointing out and should not be ignored as it will lead to conflicts with Zero which will, if articulated in descriptive terms, be too similar.
'It's a big fucking continent, so it is.'" Then there's the trumpet itself, phallic and feline at once, purring from its fur-lined box in descriptive terms you'd never expect to see applied to something like a trumpet.
This evidence and discussion is listed in descriptive terms in Shaw et al. (2016).
Cognitive performance outcomes are presented in descriptive terms only, since few publications quantified the effect of fluid intake numerically.
Continuous variables were expressed in descriptive terms, stating medians, means, interquartile ranges (IQR) and 95% confidence intervals.
Let D1, D2, … be complete descriptions in strictly descriptive terms of how these worlds are.
How do we help them understand in very descriptive terms what we expect on a day-to-day basis?
As in the preceding section, it will be taken for granted that the essential preliminary of coming to grips with the nature of the problem in general descriptive terms has been accomplished, so that the stage is set for systematic, usually mathematical, analysis.
Our practice with ethical terms can plausibly be described from an external perspective in purely descriptive terms.
Subject behavior was observed and recorded in general descriptive terms (preening, courtship, approach, aggression, etc).
