0 giving an explanation about something:
1 helping to make something clear or understandable:
an explanatory note
In conjunction, these properties of social-psychological research have impeded the development of theories with explanatory power and the ability to generate novel and nontrivial hypotheses.
More generally, greater synthesis of research findings and more explicit discussion of explanatory theories and concepts would have strengthened the value of the book.
But its explanatory power appears to wane after the 1930s, and it ultimately seems less important than either federalism or overall government structure.
Still, there might be room for improvements by including other explanatory variables in our policy interest rate model.
Unadjusted risk ratios for the incidence of schizophrenia were first calculated separately for each of these explanatory variables.
Nobody wants a theory whose restrictions are stricter than those found in the subject-matter, because it will have no explanatory power.
Of particular interest from the compositional standpoint is that the audience member can view and explore explanatory information prior to experiencing the work.
By contrast, their sensorimotor account, precisely because it rejects the idea that the brain constructs visual experiences, steps right over this explanatory gap.
