intelligibility

intelligible | American Dictionary

intelligible
adjective
us/ɪnˈtel·ɪ·dʒə·bəl/
(of speech and writing) clear enough to be understood:
It was a poor telephone connection, and only some of his words were intelligible.

Examples of intelligible

intelligible
From the first 100 complete and intelligible utterances of each speech sample, only those utterances which contained a lexical verb were selected.
The first 50 spontaneous and fully intelligible utterances were omitted to approximate warm-up periods in each sample.
Only utterances which were complete (uninterrupted), intelligible, comprehensible and spontaneous were analysed.
Complete instructions are given for these exercises so that the book shall be intelligible in the absence of a teacher.
Thus, even the excised words from the high predictability sentences were more intelligible relative to those excised from the low predictability sentences.
The mistaken assumption was that the concepts of religion and politics can only be intelligible if they pick out some real essence.
The omission is a behavioral gap constituted by a deviation in the surrounding activity that makes it intelligible as human conduct.
It is only because human nature has not been perfected that such a consciousness of lack is intelligible.
We grant that there is a natural sense in which it is intelligible to suppose that the creation of a person benefits them.
Complete and intelligible child utterances in twelve randomly selected 15-minute segments were used in assessing reliability of pronoun transcription.
This is a problem from the point of view of illuminating what the law is and of rendering intelligible the relevant area of law.
I think this discussion is not immediately intelligible to the reader.
Because pidgins are often intelligible over linguistically diverse areas, they have a cer tain advantage as languages of choice for vernacular literacy.
They are more intelligible as political labels, generated in a tactical context, and used with all the tactical subtleties that normally surround such terms.
Finally, when orthography is critical to intelligible synthesis, disambiguation rules may dictate orthographic form.
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