applied
Americanadjective
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having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena (theoretical,pure ).
applied mathematics; applied science.
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of or relating to those arts or crafts that have a primarily utilitarian function, or to the designs and decorations used in these arts.
Her goal was to integrate aesthetics into everyday life through an applied art, particularly with her hand-painted dinner plates.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- unapplied adjective
- well-applied adjective
Etymology
Origin of applied
Example Sentences
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"That is the principle that I applied to the decisions that I made over the weekend."
From BBC
This is an “identity contingency” that plays out “whenever we’re in a situation where a bad stereotype about one of our own identities could be applied to us,” potentially becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
She said: "Even after GST has been applied, the modelling shows a majority of households would be better off than they are now because of those other changes."
From BBC
But she says when she and her partner applied for IVF several months ago, they were rejected as her egg supply was too low due to her previous surgeries.
From BBC
They first applied unsupervised ML, allowing algorithms to detect natural patterns in the chemical signals without prior assumptions.
From Science Daily
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