theoretical significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftheoreticalandsignificance
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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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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition oftheoreticalandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The algorithm and itstheoreticalsignificanceare discussed in the paper.
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The smooth curves drawn through the measured points for the axial velocity have notheoreticalsignificance.
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Besides specific questions, they raise a number of important issues which have a generaltheoreticalsignificance.
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Whilst we therefore need to recover theirtheoreticalsignificance, we also need to capture their strategic purpose.
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In a subsequent residue analysis, information is obtained about rare or nonexistent patterns which may be oftheoreticalsignificance.
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The fitted smooth curves are inverse third-order polynomials and are not intended to havetheoreticalsignificance.
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The smooth curves fitted to the data points are inverse third-order polynomials and are not intended to havetheoreticalsignificance.
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Because of its format-a guidance manual for newly-weds-itstheoreticalsignificancecan be overlooked.
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Scattered throughout the volume, by the alphabetic-entry principle, are entries oftheoreticalsignificance for the study of writing systems and written language.
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Next we turn to the issue of mosttheoreticalsignificance: density dependence.
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What is thetheoreticalsignificanceof a data set that may be biased in the way described here?
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To situate thetheoreticalsignificanceof our investigation in this third ring, several further distinctions are needed.
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It can be used as a purely descriptive cover term, which is not meant to have anytheoreticalsignificancein itself.
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More discussion of this point would therefore have been not only appropriate in terms of cross-linguistic balance but also of sometheoreticalsignificance.
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The results are also oftheoreticalsignificance, in that they shed new light on the relationship between (extensional) functional programming and intensional logic.
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The curves fitted to the data points are inverse third-order polynomials and are not intended to havetheoreticalsignificance.
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In most cases, it will be better to be explicit about the entities for which localist coding is used (if any), and to identify thetheoreticalsignificanceof this choice.
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It is to be hoped nevertheless that rags helps focus attention on the places where theoretical discussion is productive and away from notational differences that have no deeptheoreticalsignificance.
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The witness properties also havetheoreticalsignificance.
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