noun. undefined

noun. The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding.

noun. The knowledge that is acquired in this way.

noun. Capacity to include.

noun. The sum of meanings and corresponding implications inherent in a term.

noun. The act of comprehending, including, or embracing; a comprising; inclusion.

noun. The quality or state of being comprehensive; comprehensiveness.

noun. That which comprehends or contains within itself; a summary; an epitome.

noun. Capacity of the mind to understand; power of the understanding to receive and contain ideas; ability to know.

noun. The act or fact of understanding; successful exercise of the knowing faculty; grasp of the significance or particulars of anything: as, to be quick of comprehension; the distinct comprehension of a term or of a subject.

noun. In rhetoric, a trope or figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

noun. In logic, the sum of all those attributes which make up the content of a given conception: thus, rational, sensible, moral, etc., form the comprehension of the conception man: opposed to extension, extent.

noun. Synonyms See list under apprehension.

noun. The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.

noun. That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.

noun. The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding.

noun. The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.

noun. A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.

noun. thorough understanding

noun. 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.

noun. a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages

noun. the relation of comprising something

noun. an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

"In a course of earnest intellectual work, the pupil must too often, with his present aids, become aware of absence of comprehension; he is ever and anon brought to stand still and cast about for the unsupplied preliminary facts and truths, for the unhinted hypotheses and inferences, which his situation and previous study do not enable him to supply, but which are necessary to a _comprehension_ of the results set down for him to deal with."

comprehend  comprehensibility  comprehensible  comprehensive  comprehensiveness  

apprehension  discernment  involvement  savvy  understanding  

Ascension  Laurentian  apprehension  ascension  attention  

acceptance  appreciation  apprehension  awareness  discernment  

IQ  admissibility  admission  apprehension  assimilation