know-why
noun
plural know-whys
: understanding of the reasons underlying something (as a course of action)
our frontier past and our industrialized present both incline us toward a preoccupation with technique, with know-how rather than know-why
Dwight Macdonald
Dwight Macdonald
Word History
Etymology
from the phrase know why
- compensated
- compensated (for)
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- compensating
- compensating (for)
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- compensating for
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- compensating winding
- compensation
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- compensation pendulum
- compensation point
- compensational
- compensations