The phrase "preliminary understanding of" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a basic or initial level of understanding or knowledge about a topic, concept, or situation. Example: Before starting the project, it is important to have a preliminary understanding of the client's needs and expectations.
Sometimes a single person or group is responsible for both, such as when Archimedes observed some data (water spilling out of his bathtub) and developed a preliminary understanding of a new theory, hydrostatics.
Not the thing itself Mr. Grning is not so vain as to suppose that a movie can provide a religious experience but a preliminary understanding of its shape and weight.
Notwithstanding, our data contribute a preliminary understanding of this population to the research literature.
In this investigation a preliminary understanding of the physical structure of these dendrimer-based nanocomposites was sought.
This dataset is used to contribute preliminary understanding of dialog acts distribution and conversation flow in this dialog space.
The primary objective is to provide a preliminary understanding of the compensation structure and level in early childhood education in these Chinese societies.
To establish a preliminary understanding on the morphology of adipocytes in fat tissues, we observed cryosectioned mediastinal and epicardial adipose tissues under an inverted fluorescence microscope (Axiovert 100TV, Zeiss).
By mining digital traces of code collaboration, and by uncovering the social structure of the OpenStack Nova project, the computerized SNA revealed key preliminary understandings of coopetition in the OpenStack ecosystem that were later re-investigated with complementary qualitative data.
In this process among the authors, some of the initial topics were excluded based on the authors' preliminary understandings of 'ethical challenge' and 'dealing with.' Some of these examples will be discussed in the Discussion section.
An inner dialogue with the text was created to get an overall and preliminary understanding, ultimately a sense of the whole.
However, the low detail resolution of such models only allows for a preliminary understanding, and the biological interpretation of the results is not always straightforward.
