theoretical account

Noun
  1. A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process (synset 105898856)
    "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
    is a type of: hypothesis, possibility, theory - a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
    subtypes:
    • computer simulation, simulation - (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program
    • mean sun - a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds
    • copernican system - (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun
    • ptolemaic system - (astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center
    • m-theory - (particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong
    • string theory - (particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings
    • stochastic process - a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)
    same as: framework, model

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