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THEORETICAL ACCOUNT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
Example:
the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems
Synonyms:
framework; model; theoretical account
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("theoretical account" is a kind of...):
hypothesis; possibility; theory (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theoretical account"):
computer simulation; simulation ((computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program)
mean sun (a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds)
Copernican system ((astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun)
Ptolemaic system ((astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center)
M-theory ((particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong)
string theory ((particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings)
stochastic process (a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time))
