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real1
1. Philosophy existent or relating to actual existence (as opposed to nonexistent, potential, contingent, or apparent)
2. Economics (of prices, incomes, wages, etc.) considered in terms of purchasing power rather than nominal currency value
3. denoting or relating to immovable property such as land and tenements
4. Physics See image
5. Maths involving or containing real numbers alone; having no imaginary part
6. Music
a. (of the answer in a fugue) preserving the intervals as they appear in the subject
b. denoting a fugue as having such an answer
7. short for real number
real2
a former small Spanish or Spanish-American silver coin
real3 the standard monetary unit of Brazil, divided into 100 centavos
2. a former coin of Portugal
1.real - Not simulated. Often used as a specific antonym to virtual in any of its jargon senses.
2.(mathematics)real - real number.
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There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
"Those," they explained, "will be cheaper than real ones.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
First and always in considering any piece of literature a student should ask himself the question already implied: Does it present a true portrayal of life--of the permanent elements in all life and in human nature, of the life or thought of its own particular period, and (in most sorts of books) of the persons, real or imaginary, with whom it deals?
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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