Real world

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Noun 1.3 Quotations

English

Alternative spellings

• real-world with hyphen when used as a noun in apposition.

Noun

real world

1. The part of the world comprising physical objects, and excluding 'virtual' worlds or environments, such as the Internet, computer simulations, or the imagination.

Quotations

• 2001, Peter Kent, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Internet [1]

  If you’re not in business yet, but plan to launch an Internet business, you’ll ignore the real world at your peril. Notice that all the large Web businesses advertise in the real world.

• 2003, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker Online [2]

  And again, real-world poker makes demands on a player that Internet poker does not. [...] Stamina, then, is an asset to your play in the real world.

• 2004, Chris Reed, Internet Law [3]

  In fact, because the Internet is accessible from almost everywhere in the world, transactions whose real-world analogues would have been restricted to only one or two jurisdictions may potentially be subject to every jurisdiction—this is particularly clear in the case of advertising via a Web site.