Theoretical in a sentence as an adjective

With the theoretical engine problem you need to recall/repair each and every engine individually. With software, once you've developed the patch you can distribute it at next to no cost.

It's 5σ at .2" His wife, also a theoretical physicist - blank stare "Discovery?" - immediately melts into a hug.

Nope, sorry, 9 times out of 10 the provision is theoretical and the interface is garbage. querySelector is pretty much the only one which does not suck hence it being used as an example every single time.

Where by "narrow" one presumably means "narrow in theoretical scope, but extremely large in terms of number of people, number of customers, number of paid hours spent working on things, and amount of impact on the world". Most of the web was built by people who don't know what B-trees are.

I believe the theoretical distinction is that when hailing a cab, you are in a position of no negotiating power - you are limited to whatever cabs happen to drive by. "Being able to hail a cab" is a public utility.

Gen W is like the theoretical physicist in that famous story who, when asked how his research contributes to national defense, replies that his research makes the nation worth defending. Only sometimes, it might not be worth defending.

Software engineers don't usually have to think in terms of theoretical limits. But when I was in engineering school, as an aerospace major, every course began with: these are the theoretical limits in this particular area--all you can do is approach them more closely.

Using APR in Zidisha's situation would mean sacrificing a measure that the majority of our members understand easily for theoretical precision. 7.

Because of his talent and domain expertise, he is easily more productive than any theoretical 'senior engineer' we could hire. Even if he's relatively happy, if you don't give him a raise, it's going to be way too easy for some recruiter to throw out salary numbers that will at least pique his interest."

"For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe." He rebels against intentionality.

I think for claims of such magnitude, there should be a modicum of neurological or information-theoretical basis involved - instead we get to read repeated statements about how groundbreaking the idea is. The article makes claims that at 30 life is essentially 3/4ths over which to me, while holding no subjective truth as far as I can tell, at least exhibit some self reference in the way that after three lines of statements the article's content seemed 75% over yet the actual text went on for much longer.

Basically, one can become a criminal not only without knowing he's doing anything wrong, but even without a theoretical way of finding it out - unless you survey all the lawyers you can find, you can not know if a yes from your lawyer would land you in jail or not, and you have no chance of understanding the law even if you spend years studying it - ultimately, the only thing that matters is the word of the enforcers on how they understand it. It's like living in the same apartment with alcoholic gorilla prone to random outbursts of violence.

Quote Examples using Theoretical

He would try modifying a few engines, meet with success, look for more success, but feel blocked because he didn't have the theoretical information. He would discover that when before he felt stupid because of his lack of interest in theoretical information, he'd now find a brand of theoretical information which he'd have a lot of respect for, namely, mechanical engineering." So he would come back to our degreeless and gradeless school, but with a difference. He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person. He'd be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside. He'd be a free man. He wouldn't need a lot of discipline to shape him up. In fact, if the instructors assigned him were slacking on the job he would be likely to shape them up by asking rude questions. He'd be there to learn something, would be paying to learn something and they'd better come up with it." Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force, and in the gradeless, degreeless institution where our student would find himself, he wouldn't stop with rote engineering information. Physics and mathematics were going to come within his sphere of interest because he'd see he needed them. Metallurgy and electrical engineering would come up for attention. And, in the process of intellectual maturing that these abstract studies gave him, he would he likely to branch out into other theoretical areas that weren't directly related to machines but had become a part of a newer larger goal.

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Theoretical definitions

adjective

concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; "theoretical science"

See also: theoretic

adjective

concerned with theories rather than their practical applications; "theoretical physics"