Academic

the academic sect or philosophy

But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of your academic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.

It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.

Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.

Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.

I have always had an academic interest in hacking.

the distinction is academic

an academic question

The character of the process by which the views of the intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow is therefore of much more than academic interest.

"Anyway, we have the triffids controlled well enough so it's an academic point and scarcely worth raising."

The exact sequence and timing of the subsequent explosions and inflight fires are not known and are, in fact, somewhat academic with respect to the probable cause of the accident.

But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.

In theory, a fully intact reverse osmosis membrane should be capable of removing lipopolysaccharide pyrogens […] In practice, this distinction is academic, because pyrogens do not replicate, and as long as the product water is […]

In practice this distinction is academic, as any small nodule on the surface of a thyroidectomy specimen should be examined histologically. If carcinoma is suspected or proven, the whole surface of the specimen may be marked[…]

The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.

For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.

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.

[…]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler are academic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.

SCP-3125 had skirmished with ω-0 before, but it had always been unclear how much information about ω-0 it retained between skirmishes. In fact it was unclear, fundamentally speaking, how SCP-3125 thought at all. Its behaviour was inconsistent, unpredictable and frightening; records of its activities were cognitohazardous, discouraging close analysis. In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.

I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.

Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.

Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].

Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many autistic students commonly reported viewing academics to be the most important aspect of university life and had a strong sense of persistence and self-determination to succeed. […] However, while some autistic students viewed socialising to be a source of threat that could jeopardise their academic success if indulged in, others highlighted the importance of social connections at university beyond that of academics.