REAL WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does real world mean? 

• REAL WORLD (noun)
  The noun REAL WORLD has 1 sense:

1. the practical world as opposed to the academic world

  Familiarity information: REAL WORLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REAL WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practical world as opposed to the academic world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

real life; real world

Context example:

a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world

Hypernyms ("real world" is a kind of...):

reality; world (all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you)

 Context examples 

The real world was in his mind, and the stories he wrote were so many pieces of reality out of his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A form of representation in which distinct objects (or digits) are used to express or represent something in the real world.

(Digital, NCI Thesaurus)

The field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.

(Computer Graphics, NCI Thesaurus)

A catchall for real world physical objects that are not diagnostic, therapeutic, or research materials.

(Other Physical Objects, NCI Thesaurus)

This study employed "real world" conditions, he said, and showed for the first time that chronic short sleep shuts down programs involved in immune response of circulating white blood cells.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the real world, bacteria always encounter lots of obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

Whereupon the other world would vanish and the real world come into his eyes, and he would get up and yawn and stretch as though he had been asleep.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Some such picture, with no real world in it, bright with the light of our innocence, and vague as the stars afar off, was in my mind all the way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are a practical soul, and you are always in the real world, not a fantasy world.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A set of ideas, abstractions, or things in the real world that can be identified with explicit boundaries and meaning and whose properties and behavior follow the same rules.

(Object Class, NCI Thesaurus)