comprehension
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehēnsiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
- borrowed from compréhension
Definitions
A thorough understanding.
- Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
- What appeal to him are the broad visions, the specious comprehension of the social order as a whole which a planned system promises.
The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or…
The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally…
A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
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The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
Reading comprehension.
The neighborhood
- synonymunderstanding
- neighborcomprehend
- neighborcomprehensibility
- neighborcomprehensible
- neighborcomprehensive
- neighborcomprehensiveness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at comprehension. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at comprehension. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at comprehension
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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