concept
//ˈkɒn.sɛpt//
formalForms
- Plural
- concepts
- present (v1)
- concept
- past (v2)
- concepted
- past participle (v3)
- concepted
- present participle
- concepting
- 3rd person singular
- concepts
Definitions
1.An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
2.A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
3.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.
1.To conceive; to dream up.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1258
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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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.