Implementation and Practical

noun

• The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order.
  • usage: "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
  • synonyms: execution, carrying out
• The act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect.
  • synonyms: effectuation

(DoD) Procedures governing the mobilization of the force and the deployment, employment, and sustainment of military operations in response to execution orders issued by the Secretary of Defense. Also called IMP.

adjective

• Concerned with actual use or practice.
  • usage: "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
• Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.
  • usage: "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
  • synonyms: hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic
• Being actually such in almost every respect.
  • usage: "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
  • synonyms: virtual
• Having or put to a practical purpose or use.
  • usage: "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"

• (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
• (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
• (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.