| 单词 | ideal case |
| 释义 | > as lemmasideal case ideal case n. a perfect or supremely excellent example or illustration of its kind; (esp. in Science) a notional or hypothetical situation that exemplifies a phenomenon when all assumptions are true and there are no complicating or extraneous factors. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > standard or type of idea1586 quintessence1590 top1593 ideal1796 ideal case1813 beau-ideal1820 1813 Monthly Rev. 72 359 If it be the office of the drama, as Aristotle pretends, to purge the passions of pity and fear, and, by exhausting their excesses on ideal cases, to bring them under the controul of discretion. 1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. II. 215 A body left to itself will move on with unaltered velocity;..(taking this as our Ideal Case) we find that all actual cases are intelligible. 1909 A. Harker Nat. Hist. Igneous Rocks iii. 77 Intrusive bodies corresponding more or less closely with this ideal case are common in folded districts. 1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. xiii. 463 A..device commonly employed in the natural sciences is to formulate a law for a so-called ‘ideal case’... For example, Galileo's law for freely falling bodies is formulated for bodies moving in a vacuum. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 June 15/1 The worst case is collapse; the ideal case is dynamism without growth, better known as sustainability. < as lemmas |
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