To Consider: take into account, consider
Vocabulary
- take into account: An idiom meaning “to consider,” often used in models, methods, and the like to say that “a certain factor was taken into account.”
- consider: A verb meaning “to consider,” often used when presenting a specific example or situation.
Examples
take into account
“It should also be noted that the potential negative feedback from environmental changes caused by rapid population growth is not taken into account.”
“It should also be noted that theprojections do not take into account potential negative feedback from the environmental consequences of rapid population growth.” 1
consider
“Now it is time to consider a new kind of differential equation and its corresponding phase space.”
“Now it’s time to consider a new kind of differential equation and its corresponding phase space.” 2
Patrick Gerland et al. ,World population stabilization unlikely this century.Science346,234-237(2014).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1257469 ↩︎
Strogatz. (2015). Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering(2nd Edition): p16. ↩︎
