What's the difference between explication and exposition?

Explication


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
  • (n.) The sense given by an expositor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of these hybrid viruses with the parent A(2) strains provided evidence that all the cross-reactivity of the Hong Kong strain with previous A(2) viruses is explicable on the basis of its similar neuraminidase component.
  • (2) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
  • (3) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
  • (4) Within science, there are forces that weaken genuine scientific discussion, and these need at least to be explicated so that their deleterious effects can be minimized.
  • (5) The confidence that one can have in the basic finding of hyperserotonemia in autism and the potential benefits to be derived from its explication make further research in this area of great interest.
  • (6) Separate groups of rabbits received explicity unpaired presentations of stimuli (tone alone, light alone and shock alone).
  • (7) The reduced response is explicable in terms of excessive numbers of suppressor cells in old spleens that can prevent young immunocompetent cells from responding maximally to the test antigen.
  • (8) The changes in C(eff) observed under conditions of moderately high K-conductance are explicable as a result of potential decrements in the transverse tubules, which would be expected when the wall conductance there is high, and the conductivity of the tubule lumen is low.
  • (9) Seemingly different interpretations of foot malformations are thereby explicable.
  • (10) A series of blood pressure measurements (averaged) improved the predictability somewhat but this seemed to be fully explicable by the greater stability of an average of several measurements as against a single measurement.
  • (11) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
  • (12) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
  • (13) The article deals with a rather rare pathology of the 1st cervical vertebra (Kimmerle anomaly), which frequently may lead to rather serious, and sometimes hardly explicable changes in vertebrobasilar circulation.
  • (14) The resultant rise of brain tryptophan was explicable largely by the associated fall in large neutral amino acids.
  • (15) The present findings explicate those of earlier studies in suggesting that male patients higher in social problem-solving ability are not only likely to be more socially competent, but also are more likely to be less severely impaired in terms of psychopathology.
  • (16) Since Freud's (1911) explication of the nature of paranoia, much has been written concerning the dynamic underpinnings of the illness but less have been detailed regarding its manifestations structurally.
  • (17) These angular illusions were not explicable by the addition of tilt illusions (experiment 6), suggesting that different judgmental processes may underlie orientation and angle estimation.
  • (18) This fact explicates the presence of imidoxon only in small concentrations after application of imidan.
  • (19) These results strongly suggest that the increased regional cerebral blood flow induced by BY-1949 is explicable, at least partly, in terms of a preferential elevation of cyclic GMP within the cerebral vasculature, where the endothelium plays a pivotal role.
  • (20) It is argued that while the results show the influence of the visual surround on children's comprehension of 'falling over', this may not be wholly explicable in terms of surround contour matching, as conventionally correct judgements were obtained in the absence of all straight line contours in the immediate surround.

Exposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
  • (n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
  • (n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
  • (n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
  • (2) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
  • (3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
  • (4) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
  • (5) Reference is made to De Gaetano's exposition of Walsh's views concerning the rôle of platelets in clotting.
  • (6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
  • (7) The influence of the electric field of commerical frequency on metabolism and interorgan distribution of copper, molybdenum, iron and manganese was studied in the 4-month experiment on animals with their daily 30-minute exposition.
  • (8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
  • (9) The differential diagnosis of unclear carcinoma-suspicious renal findings often finishes with the test-exposition and nephrectomy.
  • (10) It is assumed that the neutral point of the spatial frame of reference for coding spatial position is at the position where attention is focussed immediately before exposition of the stimulus pattern.
  • (11) The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
  • (12) Its simplest exposition is called the "Monty Hall" problem, from the US TV show Let's Make a Deal.
  • (13) In the absence of any coronary disorders--after a long CO exposition--necrosis of the papillary muscles have been revealed.
  • (14) It is shown that the formation of p-TA under these conditions depends on the period of the micro-discharge effect on the system, it is maximal at exposition of 30 s for I = 4.2 mA.
  • (15) Peculiarities of aggregation in the samples of high density serum lipoproteins LHD2 and LHD3 obtained from healthy donors and patients with ishaemic heart disease were studied under isothermal exposition.
  • (16) However, transanal exposition bears the risk of worsening the incontinence.
  • (17) Moreover, exposition to simultaneous hypoxia and hypercapnia increased the epinephrine stock of the adrenal glands.
  • (18) Those effects depend on time of cell exposition to this compound.
  • (19) Such a reaction may also be expected during a natural exposition to pollens.
  • (20) The technique of collection was the usual one with the exposition of the Petri dishes containing Sabouraud Agar distributed 72 hours before.