inception

noun
/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin inceptiō, from inceptus, perfect passive participle of incipiō (“to begin”). The layering sense derives from the 2010 science fiction film Inception, in which a team of people infiltrate someone’s subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams with the goal of causing someone to incept an idea.

  1. derived from inceptiō

Definitions

  1. The creation or beginning of something

    The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.

    • From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
    • To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
  2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.

    • Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception
    • I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception
    • With the recent uptake of mixed-reality (MR) technology, this frame can be redefined, allowing for virtual simulations to exist within the physical frame, effectively delivering an inception of physical and simulated interfaces.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inception. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA