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[Boerseun]

How about the following:

An "explanation" is the determination of the relationship between certain variables.

Like the 112 example in a previous post, the relationship can be explained as 1+1=2.

And the "2" will not be a "result" in the classical sense; it, too, will be a variable - to be used in some other relationship - which is the reason the question was asked in the first place.