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.
- derived from inceptiō
Definitions
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.
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
- neighborincept
- neighborinceptive
- neighborinceptual
- neighborincipient
- neighborthe get-go
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