Sentence examples for completely notional from inspiring English sources

Without any chance of realising a price at Sotheby's or Christie's, gangsters attribute a completely notional, abstract value of their own to it.

Any connection with a real salad Niçoise was entirely notional.

He says that the figures are entirely notional.

Barbed wire, which made other lines real and tangible, obscured this notional world completely.

This notional gizmo would "completely subdue" anyone within a further 50-metre radius, and hold others back at a distance of 400 metres.

The reason is that while the SNP might have notional power in the seats it wins, it is completely boxed in by its own political situation.

All the data were fitted to a notional 28 days by the following procedure.

Maybe Aiden and Simon can indeed convince Mancunians that spending a week's wage on tiny globes of celeriac effluvium and fairy-dust scatterings in a notional emulsion is not only something to aspire to, but a completely reasonable state of affairs.

This is a tortured acronym that stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart", and refers to a notional test devised by Alan Turing, a British code-breaker and computer-science pioneer, in which humans test a machine to see if it can think.

Early-stage investment funds can play a vital role in bridging this gap: they pick up where notional research leaves off but well before the commercial value of a discovery has been completely verified.

Although there is the notional appeal of relevance to an application for the equations under study, applied mathematics has come to mean something completely different than really applying mathematics to solve an important problem in another discipline.