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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 Word Forms

  • cdz··sDz noun
  • ԴDzcdz··sDz noun
  • cdz··sDz noun
  • p·dzp·sDz noun
  • ܲcdz··sDz noun
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Word 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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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.

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Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement calling the act “beyond comprehension.”

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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.

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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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