having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena ( distinguished from theoretical, opposed to pure ): applied mathematics; applied science.
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of or pertaining to those arts or crafts that have a primarily utilitarian function, or to the designs and decorations used in these arts.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.