concept
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin conceptusder. Middle French conceptbor. English concept Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Definitions
An abstract and general idea
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination
Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
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To conceive
To conceive; to dream up.
The neighborhood
- synonymconception
- synonymnotion
- synonymabstraction
- neighborconceive
- neighborconceptional
- neighborconceptive
- neighborconceptual
- neighbormisconceive
- neighbormisconception
- neighboressential
- neighborfundamental
- neighboridea
- neighbormeaning
- neighborpattern
- neighborthought
Derived
closed-concept, concept album, concept art, concept artist, concept car, concept drift, conceptious, conceptless, concept map, concept of operations, conceptor, concept video, gap concept, high concept, high-concept, macroconcept, metaconcept, microconcept, multiconcept, open-concept, operating concept, preconcept, primitive concept, proof of concept, proof-of-concept, pseudoconcept, puncept, self-concept, subconcept
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at concept. 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 concept. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at concept
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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