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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Medieval Latin conceptum "draft, abstract," in classical Latin "(a thing) conceived," from concep- , past participle stem of concipere "to take in" (see conceive ). In some 16c. cases a refashioning of conceit (perhaps to avoid negative connotations). ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A concept is an idea, something that is conceived in the human mind. Concept may also refer to: Aviation Berkshire Concept 70 , an American sailplane design Boats Concept 40 , an American sailboat design Computing Concept (generic programming) , a generic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concept \Con"cept\, n. [L. conceptus (cf. neut. conceptum fetus), p. p. of concipere to conceive: cf. F. concept. See Conceit .] An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: conception , construct ] [ant: misconception ]
Usage examples of concept.
The absolutist nature of the American Creed, with its ideological faith in Democracy and Freedom, tends to produce etherized, contentless versions of both these concepts.
The concept of nation in Europe developed on the terrain of the patrimonial and absolutist state.
After a few years that archival section is going to begin filling up with some great actionable concepts, worked out in relatively valid detail.
The concept theoretically should be able to impact adversarial situations that apply across the board to high, mid, low, no, or minimal technology threats.
The beauty of this advertisement comes from many elementsfirst, the association with an Italian icon, and second, the brilliant execution that ties so wonderfully to the concept of two kinds of sauce.
Pepper is often described as the first concept album, but it was not initially conceived as such.
Paul does not remember any overt decision by himself and John to write songs with a northern theme, even though these first two would indicate a concept album along those lines.
The existence of an unbreakable algorithm was a concept she was still struggling to grasp.
A concept introduced into the culture, like the Anachronists, to allow a mundane society some practice in the idea of shifting worlds and cultures?
In the physical framework of general relativity and in the corresponding mathematical framework of Riemannian geometry there is a single concept of distance, and it can acquire arbitrarily small values.
For the power of forming concepts must have manifested itself in the primitive man, as is actually the case in the infant, by movements of many sorts before articulate language existed.
The Gulf War gave us perhaps the first fully articulated example of this new epistemology of the concept.
It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.
The transformative question is: who or what is aware of both holistic and atomistic concepts?
Witness of those concepts, a Witness that itself is neither holistic nor atomistic, see here the Witness dissolve in an Emptiness that embraces the entire Kosmos.