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meanings of main and purpose

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with purpose. mainadjective [before noun]uk /meɪn/us /meɪn/ larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ... See more at mainpurposenounuk /ˈpɜː.pəs/us /ˈpɝː.pəs/ why you do something or why ... See more at purpose

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Examples of main purpose

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Our main purpose was to identify neurons that had pre-motor activity. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of the trial is to determine whether screening in men in the 55 to 79-year-old age group reduced prostate cancer mortality. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of this work is to study the velocity scaling through a basic approach of dimensional analysis. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of the paper is to discuss the uniqueness of the bounded flow solution and the role of the eigenfunction. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose is to provide emotional support and empathy for callers through the listening process. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of the immediate posttest was to examine whether sufficient learning had taken place. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose was to survey the number and case-mix of patients in longterm care in institutions. From the Cambridge English Corpus There are in fact several different definitions, and the main purpose of their paper was to show that they are all equivalent. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our main purpose is to find 'product-type' covariant representations for it. From the Cambridge English Corpus A first step (and the main purpose of this paper) is to replace the assumption d 16 by the more natural one d 2. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of this paper is to prove the following. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our main purpose in this paper is to show that certain kinds of invariants are as far from complete as possible. From the Cambridge English Corpus Its main purpose is to highlight how the scheme proposed accounts for the elusive and changing nature of concepts during design. From the Cambridge English Corpus Open-ended survey data confirm that civil rights were the main purpose of such activism. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose here is to relate a set of criteria which are useful in the design procedure. From the Cambridge English Corpus Its main purpose is the integration of the domain knowledge in a single system for the systematic design of this type of grippers. From the Cambridge English Corpus Like the 1981 article, the main purpose here is to stimulate scientific debate and inquiry. From the Cambridge English Corpus The main purpose of this paper is to show that problem (1.10) possesses an energy minimizer. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our main purpose is to explore transitions from order to disorder in the nonlinear regime and to understand the physical processes that are involved. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of main Go to the definition of purpose See other collocations with purpose {{#randomImageQuizHook.filename}} {{#randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes Try a quiz now {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{^randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.filename}}

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• Definition of main
• Definition of purpose
• Examples of main purpose
• Other collocations with purpose