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comprehension
[ kom-pri-hen-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of comprehending.
- the state of being comprehended.
- perception or understanding:
His comprehension of physics is amazing for a young student.
- capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; power to grasp ideas; ability to know.
- Logic. the connotation of a term.
comprehension
/ ˌɒɪˈɛʃə /
noun
- the act or capacity of understanding
- the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
- 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
- obsolete.logic the attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation
Other Word Forms
- cdz··sDz noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comprehension1
Example Sentences
Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement that the situation is “truly beyond comprehension” and that public works crews are working to replace the trees as soon as possible.
Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement calling the act “beyond comprehension.”
Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement to ABC7 News that the situation is “truly beyond comprehension” and that public works crews are working to replace the trees as soon as possible.
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."
"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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