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real
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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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Compared to the more obvious physical displays associated with male arousal and orgasm, there may be no external indication of desire or pleasure for a woman (or the man may worry that the external indicators are not veridical, that the woman is "faking it").
Ego-strength, the persistence toward attainment of a goal linking veridical and mature moral perception, is a corrective for much distorted cognition (Gibbs).
Klimek, a curriculum expert and a former high school principal, is a proponent of brain-based learning theories and encouraging curriculum based on adaptive decision making as opposed to veridical decision making.
 
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