0 the set of situations most humans have to deal with in their lives, rather than what happens in stories, films, etc.:
Christine, the play's main character, wouldn't last a minute in the real world.
[ before noun ] real-world situations/experiences
1 happening in the world or in someone's life rather than in a book, in the imagination, on the internet, etc.:
This kind of representation of tasks is quite adequate for many real-world problems.
To further understanding of policy problems, experimental economists construct small-scale abstractions of real-world problems (although typically these miniature replicas are framed in abstract terms).
They enable scientists to be open to real-world influences' (161).
However, by definition, a simulator represents an abstract representation of the real-world environment and it is desirable to validate simulation results with real-world hardware.
In this section we give an overview of existing multi-agent e-marketplaces to determine how close or how far are they from real-world marketplaces.
The application of qualitative simulation to real-world problems has revealed some fundamental problems hampering existing methods.
Beyond these hypothetical examples, some real-world systems of government have produced results of the form of (i) and (ii).
The model critically assumes that real-world biophysical and technological parameters can be adequately approximated through linear relationships.
