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applied is an adjective meaning "concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles". It carries one recorded sense.
concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles
“applied physics”
“applied psychology”
“technical problems in medicine, engineering, economics and other applied disciplines”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for applied come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.