practical importance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpracticalandimportance
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practical
adjective
uk/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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Detailed anatomical examination of the oval fossa and its environs relative to placement of the device is obviously of greatpracticalimportance.
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A further consideration of somepracticalimportancecan be deduced from (26).
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Yet, some form of solution must be found since the harbour resonance problem is of very greatpracticalimportancein coastal engineering.
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At first sight the symmetric singularities may appear less likely to occur in problems ofpracticalimportance.
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Here the situation is less amenable t o theory and experiments establishing the nature of dynamic interactions will be of considerablepracticalimportance.
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The straight-line problem was of greatpracticalimportancein the 18th and 19th centuries.
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This fact is ofpracticalimportancein terms of efforts to eradicate tsetse populations.
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This point is of greatpracticalimportancefor green accounting in developing countries, most of which are price takers in international commodity markets.
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The aetiology, the clinical features and the life histories of psychopathic personalities are of profound theoretical andpracticalimportance, and have been rather skimped.
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Thus, an understanding of factors that promote and inhibit corruption associated with environmental regulations and the limits to such regulations is ofpracticalimportance.
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Both transformations are of greatpracticalimportanceand widely used.
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This is ofpracticalimportancefor any attempts at control, since these groups contribute significantly to the potential contamination of the environment in the area.
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These effects have profoundpracticalimportance, since the spread of emotion from one individual to another may be a source of error in social interactions.
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Therefore, it is ofpracticalimportancet o study the modulation of a nonlinear short wavetrain riding on a finite-amplitude long wave.
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This result also has somepracticalimportance, suggesting how channels might be artificially corrected in order t o prevent the occurrence of free bars.
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Itspracticalimportanceis especially recognized in supersonic flows, where the accompanying aerodynamic heating effects become an essential design consideration.
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This calculation is not withoutpracticalimportancesince observed concentration profiles are often skew.
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It is therefore of significantpracticalimportanceto be able to model the evolution and propagation of internal solitary waves.
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We argued earlier that in two-point analysis this loss of efficiency is of littlepracticalimportance.
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Many classes of theoretical andpracticalimportanceare hereditary, which includes, among others, graphs of bounded vertex degree, planar, bipartite, interval, perfect, line graphs, forests.
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