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Practical application   /prˈæktəkəl ˌæpləkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Practical application

noun
1.
The act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose.  Synonym: application.  "A novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis"






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"Practical application" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the heart of Jesus so narrowed in their practical application? The answer is very simple. Jesus was the revealing of God—God manifest in the flesh. He had come into this world not merely to heal a few sick people, to bring back joy to a few darkened homes by the restoring of their dead, ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... world's circumference. Staggering discovery. Yet how infinitely old it looked the moment she clearly saw it: old, obvious, beautiful, and ugly as the man in the moon. It chanced that right there and then she was forced to accept its practical application. A white-jacket said to her in ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... work themselves out after a while," said Mr. Underwood, walking up and down the room. "I say, don't meddle with what you can't understand; take what you can understand and make a practical application of it. That's always been my motto, and if people would stick to that principle in commercial life, in religion, and everything else, there'd be fewer failures in business, less wrangling in the churches, and ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour

... then, the causes of governmental antagonisms were seemingly all at an end. Impressment was not used after 1814. The differing theories of the two Governments on British expatriation still remained, but Britain attempted no practical application of her view. The right of search in time of peace controversy, first eased by the plan of joint cruising, had been definitely settled by the British renunciation of 1858. Opposition to American territorial advance but briefly ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... will probably ask why the chemist does not analyze the substances of the fresh material. The answer is that he doesn't know how. Progress is made every year but the whole subject is yet too much clouded in obscurity to be of any practical application. At present the feeding of mineral substance, like the feeding of protein, can best be learned by experimenting directly with the foods rather than by attempting to go ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings


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