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Noun
/ˌakCHo͞oˈalitē/,
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Actual existence, typically as contrasted with what was intended, expected, or believed,
  1. Actual existence, typically as contrasted with what was intended, expected, or believed
    • - the building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines
    • - a mission was sent to investigate the actuality of the situation
  2. Existing conditions or facts
    • - the grim actualities of prison life
  1. the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"
  2. (Actualities) In philosophy, Potentiality and ActualityThe words "potentiality" and "actuality" are one set of translations from the original Greek terms of Aristotle. Other translations (including Latin) and alternative Greek terms are sometimes used in scholarly work on the subject. ...
  3. (actualities) an old term for documentaries
  4. Term coined to describe the earliest films created based on their presentation of actual events; short precursors to the documentary film.
  5. recordings of background sounds specific to, or characteristic of, a particular mood, time or place, that can be edited into an audio or video piece; for example, crowd noise if you are covering a rally or birdsong if you are making a piece set in a natural environment.
  6. Actual recording of news event or person(s) involved.
  7. and potentiality. Contrasting terms for that which has form, in Aristotle's sense, and that which has merely the possibility of having form. ...
  8. In Table 2.2 I list 11 theoretical dimensions along which social contracts vary, and have organized them into four general types.^24 To begin with, social contracts may be informal, as are unwritten understandings between friends or allies; or they may be formal, as with treaties. ...
  9. In radio, the sound of something actually happening, people speaking etc. Can also mean specifically audio material recorded out of the studio on location, either voices or other sounds such as ambient noise. Sometimes called a sound bite. In television sometimes called sync.
  10. n. A term coined by the late and world-famous psychologist Erik Erikson (who found out when he was 20 that he was adopted) Erikson believed that if you grew up not knowing your blood family you could not have a sense of actuality. ...
  11. A news report from the scene. It includes ambient or natural sound and may feature statements by an on-scene reporter, witness/participant comments, an interview with a knowledgeable source, etc.
  12. the term used in the media to refer to footage/film/tape of events as they happen. Semioticians see actuality as a key device for anchoring the preferred reading on the supposed 'facts' presented 'as they happened'.
  13. Pictures and/or sound recorded at an event.
  14. A term historically used in broadcasting that is now referred to as a sound byte.
  15. A nonfiction motion picture (documentary), usually of very short length, made prior to 1910 to demonstrate the technological advance of moving images over still photography. ...
  16. "What we are managing to do now, with existing resources, under existing constraints."
  17. Film record of actual events, made without use of actors and without reconstructing or interfering with the action in any way.
  18. can be any sound recorded when filming, although it usually refers to significant background sound such as a train whistle.
  19. a portion of an interview to be used in a piece. Also referred to as "acts"
  20. A clip of audio usually taken from an interview, news conference, etc. and used in a news story. Length may vary, but in general, actualities are five to fifteen seconds. However, that number varies.
  21. A live or taped news report broadcast from the scene, containing the voice(s) of the newsmaker(s), as well as of the reporter.
  22. This is an Aristotelian coinage, derived from en "in", telos "end", and echein "have". So, the sense is something like "possessing the goal". It is often equivalent to energeia.