graspable

It's to give a "graspable," whole picture -- take it home, put it on the shelf, and now I've got the view of it.

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure 1991

"I think these kind of graspable interfaces are very much needed, and do provide a much more intuitive interface," said Dinesh K. Pai, a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia.

MIT Media Lab Events and Highlights jfinks 2009

Expect, too, for all those reasons to vanish behind what most Americans will see as the far more obvious and graspable cause: President Obama's regulatory assault on domestic oil and gas production.

Obama's Gas Price Migraine Kimberley A. Strassel 2011

The problem, as he pointed out—citing the work of Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania—is that statistical differences between groups are much more graspable when shown graphically, usually in overlapping distribution curves.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

Which is partly a testament to my mapmaking (non -) skill, but also partly the purpose of a map — to render something as vast as a landscape into a comprehensible, graspable, quantifiable representation.

The Map Thing « 2009

What properties does a snippet of our lives have to possess in order to qualify as a graspable unit that our minds can label as a part going towards a whole or merely a part unto itself.

Moments » E-Mail 2009

And a text can be more graspable, more ready to give up its secrets, if the reader has some structural principles to measure it against.

What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

I think that because the time of the ancient Celts itself is a murky one, with few graspable “facts” it does get marketed more as fantasy.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 1 2009

The problem, as he pointed out—citing the work of Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania—is that statistical differences between groups are much more graspable when shown graphically, usually in overlapping distribution curves.

The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

What properties does a snippet of our lives have to possess in order to qualify as a graspable unit that our minds can label as a part going towards a whole or merely a part unto itself.

Moments 2009