Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by actual application; applied.
- adjective Practical; applicatory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Applying; applicatory; practical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having practical
application ;applicable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective readily applicable or practical
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Examples
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For the benefit of those wishing to base their future joke-telling on sound scientific principles, the remaining patterns are division, completion, translation, applicative and qualitative recontextualization, and opposition.
A universal theory of humour ewillett 2009
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For the benefit of those wishing to base their future joke-telling on sound scientific principles, the remaining patterns are division, completion, translation, applicative and qualitative recontextualization, and opposition.
A universal theory of humour ewillett 2009
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I am pretty sure that violates one of the applicative functor laws. (f pure x = pure ($x) f).
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I am pretty sure that violates one of the applicative functor laws. (f pure x = pure ($x) f).
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Thus the dyers distinguish their materials: the first are applicative, and communicate their colours to the matters boiled in them; or passed through them; as woad, scarlet, green, cochineal, indigo, madder, turmeric, &c.
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The earliest model for a typefree applicative system as a function space was given by Dana Scott in the late 60s.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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The medieval metaphysical dispute between nominalism, conceptualism, and platonism needs to be resolved conjunctively: all three are needed: a nominalism is required for concrete particulars, a conceptualism for particular-applicative concepts, and a platonism for abstractions (e.g., in prime mathematics).
Process Philosophy Rescher, Nicholas 2008
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Programming languages can be categorized in a number of ways: imperative, applicative, logic-based, problem-oriented, etc.
Archive 2007-09-01 Bill Kerr 2007
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Programming languages can be categorized in a number of ways: imperative, applicative, logic-based, problem-oriented, etc.
smalltalk: philosophy, metaphor, semantics, syntax Bill Kerr 2007
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The syntax yields a general notation system for functions, based on an applicative language, where there is one basic category of terms (well-formed formulas in his terminology).
Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic Cantini, Andrea 2007
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