well, i can't see your 'explanation' could be wrong, explanation is exactly what you think, explanation is to give it idea about what it is, how it is, where it is, when it is, why it is. well it's a semantic thing, it could mean to give easier way to understand something as when you teach a 10 years old math but with some kids analogy, it could also mean in mathematics the explanation of this phenomena is like this. but it's basically the same thing, it's a spoon to the word 'understanding', to understand something there would need some explanation. this is the analogy, why someone so handsome? well because his face is proportional and all that, how come proportional is handsome? well because blablablabla, you would think that those two are different, the first one you would think that it is an explanation, and the second one you would think that the second one is a help to stupid person, but actually both are exactly what explanation is, i told you that it is the bridge to understanding, anything that give understanding is an explanation. did you see the pattern there?
