Definition of practical for Students. 1  1 : of or relating to real action rather than ideas or thought practical matters. 2  2 : capable of being put to use : reasonable to do or use practical advice Those shoes are nice, but these are more practical. 3  3 : tending to act according to reason and logic Beezus, always practical, changed her mind.
(March 2016) The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is a standardized methodology for verifying integrated circuit designs. UVM is derived mainly from the OVM (Open Verification Methodology) which was, to a large part, based on the eRM (e Reuse Methodology) for the e Verification Language developed by Verisity Design in 2001.
Self-verification theory. Self-verification is a social psychological theory that asserts people want to be known and understood by others according to their firmly held beliefs and feelings about themselves, that is self-views (including self-concepts and self-esteem). A competing theory to self-verification is self-enhancement or the drive for positive evaluations.