Explanation in a sentence as a noun

There's no explanation as to why the canon ball missed.

The explanation I gave to my mom:We want to count all the books in the library.

I search for an explanation, all the while my brain is telling me that I'm stupid for even looking.

The actual explanation for this is a lot more reasonable:"Him: OK, I figured out what happened.

[edit: created a blog post containing this explanation.

W3Schools' CSS Reference [2] is neatly categorized, and each entry has a short explanation next to it.

After a point is added to a group, the mean of that groups is adjusted in order to take account of that new pointHey, so there was an intuitive explanation in that paper after all!

Somewhat disconcerting that I am a Dropbox customer, yet neither the breach nor the explanation has been communicated to me by email; I've had to find out about it by reading HN.

Could you ever imagine a local retailer in your area breaking and entering into your home, taking away all your books, and then not giving you a straightforward explanation as to why they did so?

Commands that have different names between Cordova and Phonegap are still documented as the Cordova equivalent, so one must use Google to find other people who searched for hours until they themselves came across the explanation that the same command in Phonegap requires the use of a completely different word.

But, since you only made it through the few paragraphs of the paper, you missed an intuitive explanation that's right there on that page from an paper reproduced by that blog post:Stated informally, the k-means procedure consists of simply starting with k groups each of which consists of a single random point, and thereafter adding each new point to the group whose mean the new point is nearest.

Explanation definitions

noun

a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"

See also: account

noun

thought that makes something comprehensible

noun

the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible; "I heard his explanation of the accident"