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Explanation

A claim advanced to account for how or why something is the case, for example, describing how some (perhaps hitherto puzzling) occurrence fits in with surrounding events or results from particular preceding events – in a scientific context the process clarifies and provides reasons for understanding various phenomena.

 
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