simplified form

collocation in English

meaningsofsimplifyandform

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simplify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈsɪm.plɪ.faɪ/
us
/ˈsɪm.plə.faɪ/
to make something less complicated and therefore easier to do ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/
us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofsimplifyandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsimplified form

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This simple model presents the key features of any larger construct, albeit in spare and highlysimplifiedform.
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Figure 4 shows the procedure insimplifiedform.
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These letters have quasistandard names as well, which is asimplifiedformthat omits the final glottal stop.
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With this final step, then, we have included the different elements of the three-stage exposition in asimplifiedform.
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These latter utterances especially could be viewed as asimplifiedformof conjoined clauses.
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All the techniques developed in this paper can be applied (often insimplifiedform) to this variant.
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Even in thissimplifiedformthe problem still remains rather hard.
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In this regard, when a syllable deletion process takes place, the child may produce thesimplifiedformwithout being aware of the full target form.
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We shall now deduce asimplifiedformof this nonlinearity by disregarding the corrections due to dispersion and diffraction.
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This presentation contains several of the elements pointed out above that we saw in adult per formances, but, as expected, insimplifiedform.
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To avoid technical difficulties, we state the result here in a slightlysimplifiedform.
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Odersky et al. (1995) describe asimplifiedformof single-parameter parametric overloading.
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By their very nature architects' models tend to have variable amounts of detail with their own buildings modelled accurately and the surroundings shown in asimplifiedform.
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Lighthill (1969, $13) summarizes these in an approximate,simplifiedform.
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Thissimplifiedformof space and time dependence is valid as long as the laser pulse envelope remains nearly constant during the interaction time with the particle.
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In some territories, however, it is proposed as an interim measure to take asimplifiedformof population enumeration.
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That does not mean surely that it is impossible to get asimplifiedformof book-keeping!
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