English
Alternative spellings
real-world with hyphen when used as a noun in apposition.

Noun
en-noun|sg=real world|-

1. The realm of human experience comprising physical objects, and excluding theoretical constructs, hypotheses, artificial environments, and "virtual" worlds such as the Internet, computer simulations, or the imagination.

#:It's time to relocate this experiment from the laboratory into the real world.

• 2007-11-07 18:50 - WikiPedant - expanded {{en-noun}}

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