Real-world

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English

Etymology

real + world

Noun

real-world

  1. A pragmatic, a posteriori (as opposed to theoritical or academic) perpective, environment or solution.
    It's time to relocate this experiment from the laboratory into the real-world.

Adjective

real-world

  1. Having a practicable, verifiable, non-academic quality.
    The moon rocket was a real-world application of astrophysics.
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