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adjectiveconcerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations
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adjectiveconcerned with theories rather than their practical applicationsOpposite:
Definition that contains theoretical
- effective existing in fact; not theoretical; real
- distribution (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
- academic hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- abstract consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- theoretically in a theoretical manner
- hawking English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
- pauli United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)
- metaphysical highly abstract and overly theoretical
- dirac English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984)
- weinberg United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933)