Home Forum Dictionary Articles Tutorials Books Directory Share your work


Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Dictionary » P » Practical

Practical

practical

1. Of or pertaining to practice or action.

2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. Man's practical understanding. . For all practical purposes. .

3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.

4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. Practical joke, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; especially, a trick played upon a person.

Origin: L. Practicus active, Gr. Fit for doing or performing, practical, active, fr. To do, work, effect: cf. F. Pratique, formerly also practique. Cf. Pragmatic, Practice.


Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page



Results from our forum


What are today's bioinformatic bottlenecks?

I have some interesting questions about practical bioinformatics bottlenecks.. what common or important bioinformatic tasks are the slowest or most limiting? My background is in text compression, databases, and parallel processing, but I know ...

See entire post
by GerryB
Sat May 02, 2009 9:57 am
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: What are today's bioinformatic bottlenecks?
Replies: 0
Views: 101

Back to school for B.S. in Biology?

... late and finished that degree at 27. Almost 2 years later, and I've grown very dissatisfied. I never was passionate about my major. It just seemed practical, and friends and family pushed me to hurry and get a degree. The job I got after graduating was boring and terrible, but it paid my bills....barely. ...

See entire post
by Jzen
Fri May 01, 2009 12:48 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Back to school for B.S. in Biology?
Replies: 9
Views: 239

Re: Fitness and Diet

... fish, eggs, low-fat dairy products - add some or all of these as regular parts of the diet, though not to excess. Also, as much variety as is practical in fruit, vegetables, nuts and high fibre starch foods. At least five different ones each day. When hungry, fill up on the high fibre starches. ...

See entire post
by skeptic
Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:37 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Fitness and Diet
Replies: 14
Views: 517

SAC thermoregulation

Hi there! I have a SAC tomorrow on thermoregulation (the practical). Would anyone would be able to answer a few questions that I might think of in preparation for the written work that is to be done during class time (day after tomorrow)? For SACs we ...

See entire post
by Joker
Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:36 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: SAC thermoregulation
Replies: 0
Views: 85

Re: B.S and M.S in Bio, no job

... a nursing college or doing a BS degree online . I think the best way is to finish the BS degree and then start working. Besides a good education, practical experience is nowadays very important. If you work you can either decide to stop working and continue your studies in order to do the MS degree ...

See entire post
by haleysweety
Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:51 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: B.S and M.S in Bio, no job
Replies: 8
Views: 911
View all matching forum results

This page was last modified 21:16, 3 October 2005. This page has been accessed 1,388 times. 
What links here | Related changes | Permanent link