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  • 1Actual — Ac tu*al (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.] 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. [1913 Webster] Let your holy and pious intention… …

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  • 2Actual — y actualidad pueden referirse a: El presente En geología, el periodo actual (Holoceno).[1] En filosofía, la acción del acto sobre la potencia.[2] El objeto del periodismo. La historia actual, la fracción más reciente de la Edad Contemporánea.… …

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  • 3Actual — Ac tu*al, n. (Finance) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] [1913 Webster] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, actuals, but only Egyptian budget… …

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  • 4actual — adjective Etymology: Middle English actuel, from Late Latin actualis, from Latin actus act Date: 14th century 1. obsolete active 2. a. existing in act and not merely potentially b. existing in fact or …

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  • 5Actual infinity — is the idea that numbers, or some other type of mathematical object, can form an actual, completed totality; namely, a set. Hence, in the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity involves the acceptance of infinite entities,… …

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  • 6Actual Art — is a genre of art that was first named by critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle in a review of Helene Aylon’s work. The name was chosen because the art was real , but the term Realism was already in use to describe a different …

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  • 7Actual cautery — Actual Ac tu*al (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.] 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. [1913 Webster] Let your holy and pious… …

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  • 8Actual sin — Actual Ac tu*al (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.] 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. [1913 Webster] Let your holy and pious… …

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  • 9Actual Idealism — was a form of idealism developed by Giovanni Gentile that grew into a grounded idealism contrasting the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant and the Absolute idealism of Georg Hegel. Acceptance It was successful in laying a theory of… …

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  • 10Actual innocence — is the most widely used [Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman Barrett, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System (2007), p. 285 (stating Undoubtedly, the most common defenseargument is that the prosecution has failed to prove the… …

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