APPLIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does applied mean? 

• APPLIED (adjective)
  The adjective APPLIED has 1 sense:

1. concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles

  Familiarity information: APPLIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles

Context example:

technical problems in medicine, engineering, economics and other applied disciplines

Similar:

forensic (used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law)

practical (having or put to a practical purpose or use)

Antonym:

theoretical (concerned with theories rather than their practical applications)

 Context examples 

In contrast, the participants with the PIEZO2 mutation felt no difference between the areas where capsaicin and placebo had been applied.

(Study identifies gene that makes gentle touch feel painful after injury, National Institutes of Health)

Topically applied VU041 wasn’t toxic to adult honeybees.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

A procedure in which mild electric currents are applied to certain acupuncture points (spots on the body where an acupuncture needle may be inserted to control pain and other symptoms) on the skin.

(Acupuncture-like transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, NCI Dictionary)

Before dispersants can be applied, light energy from the sun immediately begins to break chemical bonds in oil compounds — splitting off atoms or chemical chains and creating openings for oxygen to attach.

(Sunlight reduces effectiveness of dispersants used to clean up oil spills, National Science Foundation)

On those fields, different rates of nitrogen fertilizer were applied to test which was most effective in optimizing corn yield.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

In addition, the compound showed strong repellency against mosquitoes when higher concentrations of coconut oil compounds were topically applied.

(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Our work shows that the third harmonic generation efficiency in graphene can be increased by over 10 times by tuning an applied electric field, said lead author Giancarlo Soavi, of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)

The first disease for which gene therapy was applied.

(Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

The production of fat, either fatty degeneration or fatty infiltration; also applied to the normal deposition of fat or to the conversion of carbohydrate or protein to fat.

(Adipogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A dosing measurement based on the amount of substance applied.

(Application Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)