Definition of Idal
I*de"al (?), a. [L. idealis: cf.
F. idéal.] 1. Existing in idea or
thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal
knowledge.
2. Reaching an imaginary standard of
excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal
beauty. Byron.
There will always be a wide interval between practical
and ideal excellence. Rambler.
3. Existing in fancy or imagination only;
visionary; unreal. "Planning ideal common wealth."
Southey.
4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the
ideal theory or philosophy.
5. (Math.) Imaginary.
Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful;
imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian.
I*de"al (?), n. A mental
conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of
excellence, beauty, etc.
The ideal is to be attained by selecting and
assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are
usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective
or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the
Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of
the human frame. Fleming.
Beau ideal. See Beau ideal.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier
Bosco and Elio Giovannetti combining Miranda and Prolog.
Function definitions can have a guard condition (introduced
by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between
arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved
by normal Prolog resolution and unification. It was
originally compiled into C-Prolog but was eventually to be
compiled to K-leaf.
2. A numerical constraint language written by Van Wyk of
Stanford in 1980 for typesetting graphics in documents.
It was inspired partly by Metafont and is distributed as
part of Troff.
["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van
Wyk, ACM Trans Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)].
(1994-12-15)
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
- being optimal or relating to the best option for something
- being perfect, having no flaws or defects
- being something that exists only in the mind; CONCEPTUAL, IDEATIONAL
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds
- a perfect standard of beauty, intellect , etc., or a standard of excellence
- (numbertheory) Special subsets of a ring, used to restore unique factorization.
- (mathematics) In order theory, a special subset of a partially ordered set.
Spanish
- ideal
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- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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