English noun: practical application | |||
1. | practical application (act) the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose | ||
Samples | He advocated the application of statistics to the problem. A novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis. | ||
Synonyms | application | ||
Broader (hypernym) | employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | engineering, misapplication, technology | ||