WordNet
n. the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis" [syn: application]
Usage examples of "practical application".
Patents and copyrights pertain only to the practical application of knowledge, to the creation of a specific object which did not exist in nature—.
A cosmic nature-wisdom of this kind has been reopened for us in modern form by Rudolf Steiner, and has since found widespread practical application in agriculture.
Science - pure science, science not for any practical application but for its own sake - is a deeply emotional matter for those who practise it, as well as for those nonscientists who every now and then dip in to see what's been discovered lately.
Unfortunately, it apparently never occurred to anyone at the time that wheels had any practical application, and their use was confined to little clay gadgets that are thought to be either toys or cult objects.
Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object- its practical application.
I'll bet you'd have better luck conducting a seminar for them on the practical application of evil spirits.
Technical writings on some practical application or other of the scientific principles with which they were familiar here could be picked up almost anywhere and were used in the haphazard instruction that took the place of formal schooling.
Chronoscopy, perhaps, has some value, but it is the only practical application and that's a dead end.
Such a system would have been a really cool engineering accomplishment -- but it had little practical application today.
Chronoscopy, perhaps, has some value, but it is the only practical application and thats a dead end.
Chronoscopy, perhaps, has some value, but it is the only practical application and that’.