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gen. chercheur m (Teacher or scholar belonging to a body of higher education or a learned society) ; chercheuse f (Teacher or scholar belonging to a body of higher education or a learned society) ; professeur m (Teacher or scholar belonging to a body of higher education or a learned society) ; universitaire m (Teacher or scholar belonging to a body of higher education or a learned society) ; académique f (Learned, scholarly) cinema académique f English thesaurus abbr., med. Azithromycin In Coronary Artery Disease Elimination Of Myocardial Infection With Chlamydia (study) archit. study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering (wiktionary.org ) gen. having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical (by ext., having no practical importance • As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purely academic interest. wiktionary.org • For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest. • The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic. ) ; theoretical or speculative, abstract, scholarly, literary or classical (in distinction to practical or vocational; from late 19th century • I have always had an academic interest in hacking. wiktionary.org ) ; having a love of or aptitude for learning (I'm more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else. wiktionary.org ) archit. subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius (wiktionary.org ) arts. conforming to set rules and traditions, conventional, formalistic (from late 19th century wiktionary.org ) disappr. so scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world (wiktionary.org ) ; lacking in worldliness (wiktionary.org ) ed. belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, also a scholarly society or organization (from late 16th century • academic courses wiktionary.org • academic study ) philos., hist. belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato (from late 16th century • the academic sect of philosophy wiktionary.org )
wiktionary.org • For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest. • The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.); theoretical or speculative, abstract, scholarly, literary or classical (in distinction to practical or vocational; from late 19th century • I have always had an academic interest in hacking. 