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Ideal vs Apposite - What's the difference?

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Ideal is a related term of apposite.


As nouns the difference between ideal and apposite

is that ideal is ideal (perfect standard) while apposite is (rare) something that is.

As an adjective apposite is

appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.

ideal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Optimal; being the best possibility.
  • Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
  • * Rambler
    • There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
  • Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
  • Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 256:
    • The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
  • * 1818 , , [[s:Frankenstein/Chapter 4, Chapter 4],
    • Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
  • Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
    • the ideal theory or philosophy
  • (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
    • ideal point
    An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * ideality * idealless * ideally * idealism * idealistic * idealize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
    • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny -
  • (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty]] lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is [[closure, closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_prime_ideal_theorem#Prime_ideal_theorems]
    • If (1) the empty set were called a "small" set, and (2) any subset of a "small" set were also a "small" set, and (3) the union of any pair of "small" sets were also a "small" set, then the set of all "small" sets would form an ideal .
  • (for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
    • Let \mathbb{Z} be the ring of integers and let 2\mathbb{Z} be its ideal of even integers. Then the quotient ring \mathbb{Z} / 2\mathbb{Z} is a Boolean ring.
    The product of two ideals \mathfrak{a} and \mathfrak{b} is an ideal \mathfrak{a b} which is a subset of the intersection of \mathfrak{a} and \mathfrak{b}. This should help to understand why maximal ideals' are prime ' ideals . Likewise, the union of \mathfrak{a} and \mathfrak{b} is a subset of \mathfrak{a + b}.

    Antonyms

    * (order theory) filter

    Derived terms

    * left ideal * right ideal * two-sided ideal * principal ideal

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    apposite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  • * c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
    • Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
  • *
    • Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
  • * 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
    • Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
  • Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
  • * 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34, page 262,
    • In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
  • Related, homologous.
  • * 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
    • If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

    Related terms

    * apposition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Something that is
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles L. Marson, title=Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites

    References

    See also

    * opposite ----