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Definition of Theoretical

1. Adjective. Concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations. "Theoretical science"

2. Adjective. Concerned with theories rather than their practical applications. "Theoretical physics"

Definition of Theoretical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Theoretical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Theoretical

1. Of, pertaining to or consisting in theory, not practical (distinguished from applied). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Theoretical

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Literary usage of Theoretical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"But it is important to realize at the same time that the practical study of languages is not in any way less scientific than the theoretical. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"As a result orthodoxy and rationalism are commuted, giving rise to a speculative theoretical knowledge as subject of theology. Exactly this entrance of the ..."

3. The Lancet (1842)
"TABLE in connection with the preceding table (3), showing, according to the facts observed in the Л »¡¡cable and Equitable, and according to theoretical ..."

4. Ethics and Moral Science by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1905)
"CHAPTER I theoretical ETHICS HAS NOT AND CANNOT HAVE ANY EXISTENCE I General conditions of the distinction between the theoretical and the practical point ..."

5. A Handbook of Colloid-chemistry: The Recognition of Colloids, the Theory of by Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald, Wolfgang Ostwald (1919)
"The theoretical Characterization of the Two Classes .of Colloids.—Even the theoretical conceptions which led to the use of the expressions ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... In theoretical and artistic questions, however, everyone enjoys freedom. Thus the Congregation of Rites has declared in regard to the official chant ..."

7. A Compend of pharmacy by Francis Edward Stewart (1906)
"theoretical AND PRACTICAL PHARMACY. Pharmacy.—The science which treats of medicinal substances, comprehending not only a knowledge of medicines and the arts ..."

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