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comprehension

[ kom-pri-hen-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of comprehending.
  2. the state of being comprehended.
  3. perception or understanding:

    His comprehension of physics is amazing for a young student.

  4. capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; power to grasp ideas; ability to know.
  5. Logic. the connotation of a term.


comprehension

/ ˌɒɪˈɛʃə /

noun

  1. the act or capacity of understanding
  2. the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
  3. education an exercise consisting of a previously unseen passage of text with related questions, designed to test a student's understanding esp of a foreign language
  4. obsolete.
    logic the attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • cdz··sDz noun
  • ԴDzcdz··sDz noun
  • cdz··sDz noun
  • p·dzp·sDz noun
  • ܲcdz··sDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of comprehension1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin dzŧԲō-, stem of dzŧԲō, from dzŧԲ(ܲ) “understood” (past participle of comprehendere “to understand,” literally, “to seize together”; comprehend ) + -ion
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Highlighting some messages in a subsequent social media post, Eilish wrote: "Some people have no comprehension of how much you have to fuel your body to do this type of training. Bunch of clowns."

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"I remember it vividly because I had no comprehension of who Ali was, I'd never even seen him," she says.

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As a recently compiled Center on National Security chart shows, the forever delays in those hearings led to calendars of such length as to defy comprehension.

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One of our biggest civic crises in America is that so many of our citizens lack basic comprehension of the governmental and economic model they live under, or, perhaps, they willfully deny it.

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"This is beyond human comprehension," one person wrote on X.

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