Real world
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Real world (also "real life") is generally a colloquialism for the physical reality of everyday life which everyone experiences; it is also referred to as the human condition. More specifically, the term has both context-dependent meanings, and also occurs as a proper name.
- 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.
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