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reduction to practice

noun

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The point at which an invention is either actually built and shown to work or fully set out in a patent filing.

Conception was in March, but reduction to practice didn't come until the prototype ran in June.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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