Meanings of practical element in English

The practical element investigates how plastics can get into the water cycle.

This four-year course includes a substantial practical element with 220 days of fieldwork.

Building courses have a strong practical element, such as a sandwich year in industry.

He showed a strong practical element of calculation and foresight.

A certain practical element was apt, perhaps, to color Mr. Scobell's half-hours with nature.

Was there a practical element to that shot?

How you'll learn Aside from essay writing and exams, lots of courses will have a practical element.

Incredibly, there is still no practical element to the courses at either Leaving Certificate or Junior Certificate level.

But in the English legislature the practical element has always predominated, and not seldom unduly predominated, over the speculative.

There was a course in art history at Leicester University too, but the course I chose had a considerable practical element.

He is a talented composer but cerebral palsy means he cannot hold an instrument or sit the practical element of music exams.

It was her nephew, speaking almost for the first time, and the interruption had an odd effect, introducing a sharply practical element.

Religious ceremonies are an imperfect expression of the practical element in piety, as the doctrines of faith are a weak imitation of the theoretical.

Throughout it was the directly practical element in science which alone was to be handled, and that with as much brevity and simplicity as possible.

This practical element in Roman criticism is well illustrated by Horace, whose statements have sometimes been made to support opinions which Horace did not hold.

Thus the academic and the practical elements of the party met on even ground.