Practical in a sentence as an adjective

When people see that I highlight text while I'm reading, they always want to know what practical reason it serves.

All while being practical—it has to be, since it's evolved with a Servo as a concomitant project.

The law is designed to accommodate the practical needs of companies that want to raise capital.

But that's no excuse for leading us toward a world where the only practical choices are proprietary chat clients and protocols.

Bitcoin is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the "How do I get cheap PR for my company" problem.

This would be a significant and very practical step toward undercutting a good measure of the power currently held by the trolls.

This is why SMT solvers supporting floating point numbers is so exciting: it makes this sort of approach practical even for programs that use lots of doubles.

This is why today we aren't just looking at the kinds of attacks that seem practical, but we are also paying attention to security theorems.

We could debate whether this would "work" on a practical level as if this was a Powerpoint presentation for Steve Ballmer and we're supposed to predict how he'd react.

Assuming the FP support scales even a fraction as well, this should be enough to practically verify pretty non-trivial functions!

It strikes a classic balance between formal investor protections and real-world practicalities.

In fact, the practical effect of this case on patents will be far greater than that of, say, Bilski, which dealt with the question of what constitutes patentable subject matter.

While I understand and sympathise with the compulsion to resist surveillance in this practical, technological way, I think it might be the wrong reaction to the information.

It is always a trade-off between optimum investor protections and practical limitations on such protections in the name of letting legitimate capital formation get done.

Of course, such cases are not billed hourly precisely because the whole point of a class action is to allow the courts to aggregate a bunch of little claims to allow for a practical remedy for cases that would not be economically worthwhile to pursue separately.

But it is a policy judgment declaring that the SOX rules are just too much for relatively small companies just going public and therefore should be relaxed for such companies in order to enable them to realize their practical goals of going public, building momentum, and only later having to comply with the full SOX rules.

Practical definitions

adjective

concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"

adjective

guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"

See also: hardheaded hard-nosed pragmatic

adjective

being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

adjective

having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"