It's
something of an abstract concept, but with real world implications, and the universality of such physical models, based on things like radiative balance, atmospheric composition and density, distance from the local Sun, etc., is a very strong argument in favor of general acceptance of the results of climate models and observations on Earth.
Not exact matches
The
abstract noun «conception» means the act
of conceiving and / or the fact
of conceiving, i.e.,
of taking hold
of and holding
something in the mind, and thus frequently also connotes «what» is so held — in this being synonymous with «
concept,» or «thought,» or «idea» in its modern usage.
They made the best choice for their family —
something more important than an
abstract, idealized
concept of infant sleep.
That «
something else» may be America as
concept, the United States as an
abstract entity worth dying for in the mud
of another continent.
A
concept paper is meant to explain an
abstract idea or
concept to the reader; so that they may understand
something, they were unaware
of.