Ideal

I`de´al

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.

- Rambler.

Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.

Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.

(Math.) Imaginary.

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.

Noun	1.	ideal - the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
	2.	ideal - model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint
Adj.	1.	ideal - conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
	2.	ideal - constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content"
	3.	ideal - of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas Synonyms: idealistic

1.		IDEAL - 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.		IDEAL - 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)].
3.	(theory)	ideal - In domain theory, a non-empty, downward closed subset which is also closed under binary least upper bounds. I.e. anything less than an element is also an element and the least upper bound of any two elements is also an element.

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