theoretical construct
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftheoreticalandconstruct
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theoretical
adjective
uk/θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌθiː.əˈret̬.kəl/
based on the ideas that relate to a subject, not the practical uses of ...
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construct
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.strʌkt/us/ˈkɑːn.strʌkt/
an idea or an ...
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(Definition oftheoreticalandconstructfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It expresses neither a veiled disagreement with orthodoxy nor atheoreticalconstructhaving no real existence.
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The concept of the tachyon does not violate the principles of special relativity, and they are quite a simpletheoreticalconstruct.
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His academic audience would have appreciated an additional section or chapter which attempted to reframe and critique retirement as atheoreticalconstruct.
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The effect of democratic maturation, the variable capturing the originaltheoreticalconstructof the probability of electoral support remains robust.
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The test is applied to the scales that together are thought to measure a particulartheoreticalconstruct, such as user satisfaction.
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When there were deviations, the national teams made these decisions to produce maximum comparability to thetheoreticalconstruct.
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This search brought to the fore a newtheoreticalconstruct, namely 'community consciousness'.
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You always have to have some kind oftheoreticalconstructin your mind and that's a model.
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Remember the wager is not just atheoreticalconstruct, but a pragmatic argument.
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At best, it allows us to postulate an external world as atheoreticalconstruct.
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Once we take the external world as atheoreticalconstruct, then we have many options for the particular form of that construct.
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Does the context of surrounding conduct make omission something done rather than atheoreticalconstruct that fails to refer to anything real in the world?
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A finaltheoreticalconstructthat has direct bearing on our analysis is that of advocacy interview.
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Does the notion of a creole continuum fit speaker perceptions, or is it best regarded simply as a usefultheoreticalconstruct?
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This allows us to dispense with the sonority hierarchy as atheoreticalconstruct.
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This is one of several newly coined terms that, although facilitating the analysis of some developments, tend to be overused in order to accommodate a particulartheoreticalconstruct.
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We argue that the results provide evidence for the validity of transferring thetheoreticalconstructof self-regulation from educational psychology to the area of second language acquisition.
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This statistical field focuses on the empirical study of how a set of observed items relates to an underlyingtheoreticalconstructover group or over time.
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