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APPLIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles
Example:
technical problems in medicine, engineering, economics and other applied disciplines
Classified under:
Similar:
forensic (used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law)
practical (having or put to a practical purpose or use)
Antonym:
theoretical (concerned with theories rather than their practical applications)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb apply
Context examples:
The gel is applied to the skin of affected areas.
(Baclofen/amitriptyline/ketamine gel, NCI Dictionary)
A non-technical term applied to all tissues outside the vascular cambium in woody root, stem, or branch.
(Bark, Food and Drug Administration)
A designation or description of the application environment or discipline in which a name is applied or from which it originates.
(Application Context, NCI Thesaurus)
Having relevance; capable of being applied.
(Applicable, NCI Thesaurus)
Applied to a problem-solving procedure implemented in software to be executed by a computer.
(Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
An infrastructure for multi-institutional clinical trials of imaging and related disciplines applied to cancer.
(American College of Radiology Imaging Network, NCI Thesaurus)
This category may be applied to new antimicrobial agents for which no resistant microorganisms have been encountered at the time the initial interpretive criteria are determined.
(Antimicrobial Nonsusceptibility Result, NCI Thesaurus)
Longaker said that when applied directly to the inside of broken bones, the gel helped with repairs in diabetic mice, and in healthy rodents as well.
(Protein Discovery Could Help Heal Bones in Diabetics, VOA)
This technology, which was applied on an industrial scale at the facilities of Biomasa del Guadalquivir, uses a semi-permeable cover (membrane) system that prevents unpleasant smells from escaping and shortens the process time.
(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)
If applied to concrete on the street or the walls of buildings, the harmless photodegradation products could be washed away by rain or wind, or manually cleaned off.
(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)
