The phrase "a theoretical situation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing hypothetical scenarios or concepts that are not based on real events but rather on ideas or theories.
Example: "In a theoretical situation where resources are unlimited, we could solve many of the world's problems."
Alternatives: "a hypothetical scenario" or "a conceptual situation".
And it is not "gotcha" politics to ask how somebody who wants to be president would respond to a theoretical situation that could become an actual problem that would have to be resolved.
This was derived based on a theoretical situation with a hexagonal grid.
It's an admittedly minor infraction – especially given that my biggest worry around it is a theoretical situation where I lose something which hasn't happened during my weeks of testing.
The simulations obviously represent only a theoretical situation because all real eruptions eject a large number of particle sizes spanning several orders of magnitude.
Here's a theoretical situation: Let's say I meet someone; we click, and I tell them that I'm HIV-positive.
The second version describes a theoretical situation, where there are no such compensations.
This step involves going over your collected list of assets and determining how much these assets could produce in tandem, in a completely theoretical situation.
The discovery of widespread climatic dynamism and the correlative recognition of plate-tectonic phenomena created a whole new theoretical situation for geomorphologists.
This concept can effectively reduce computational load of item assignments in a multi-player game theoretical situation.
Although from the numerical results the relation between stress and strain has a small difference from the theoretical situation, the relation between the strain rate and the differential stress with the free boundary condition matches the theoretical situation very well.
Based on this assumption, a new method was developed to quantify the loss in secondary production (L index) due to the removal of marine organisms through catches (expressed as PPR equivalents) compared to a theoretical unfished situation [10, see materials and methods].
