real-world

adjective

ˈrē(-ə)l-ˈwər(-ə)ld 

: existing or occurring in reality : drawn from or drawing on actual events or situations : real-life

a real-world example

… the complex relationship between a word and the real-world thing it labels.

—Jean Aitchison

Digital objects aren't bound by the same constraints as real-world objects—that is, broadly speaking, the whole point of digital objects—but they're often made to look like real-world objects anyway.

—Lev Grossman

… combine the rigors of academics with the soothing realities of real-world applications.

—Ricardo Bilton

The paintings are essentially abstract, but they don't feel abstract. They feature, besides passages of figurative drawing, a real-world aura …

—Peter Schjeldahl

Examples of real-world in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The capsule sheds light on Black designers by providing real-world opportunities. —Essence, 11 Oct. 2024

Bring real-world credentials Just showing up isn't enough. —Jodie Cook, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024

The media and investors tend to focus on computing power, and thus miss much of the real-world work that supports AI. —Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024

By releasing a more powerful Llama, Meta is hoping that developers would be able to incorporate the software in their future AR apps to help power tasks like recognizing real-world objects and more accurately reacting to voice commands, the people said. —Salvador Rodriguez,jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above