Crossword clues for aptitude
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aptitude \Apt"i*tude\, n. [F. aptitude, LL. aptitudo, fr. L. aptus. See Apt, and cf. Attitude.]
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A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.
He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops.
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A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman.
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Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
He was a boy of remarkable aptitude.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "tendency, likelihood," from Middle French aptitude (14c.) or directly from Late Latin aptitudo (genitive aptitudinis) "fitness," noun of quality from Latin aptus "joined, fitted" (see apt). Meaning "natural capacity to learn" is 1540s; that of "quality of being fit (for a purpose or position)" is from 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill. 2 The condition of being suitable.
WordNet
n. inherent ability [ant: inaptitude]
Wikipedia
aptitude is a front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. It has an especially powerful search system utilizing flexible search patterns. It was initially created for Debian, but has appeared in RPM Package Manager (RPM) based distributions as well (such as Conectiva).
An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. Outstanding aptitude can be considered "talent". Aptitudes may be physical or mental. Aptitude is inborn potential to do certain kinds of work whether developed or undeveloped. Ability is developed knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired abilities ( skills) or attitude. The innate nature of aptitude is in contrast to skills and achievement, which represent knowledge or ability that is gained through learning.
According to Gladwell (2008) and Colvin (2008) often it is difficult to set apart an outstanding performance merely because of talent or simply because of hard training. Talented people as rule show high results immediately in few kinds of activity, but often only in single direction or genre.
Usage examples of "aptitude".
But who sent the moth and allowed it, in the midst of a late-summer thunderstorm roaring like a high school principal, to make me fall in love with the drum my mother had promised me and develop my aptitude for it?
The Greek element is strong in the maritime towns, and displays its natural aptitude for navigation and commerce.
Sent at the age of ten to the college of Brives, he showed great aptitude for study, but his independence of spirit was so excessive that he was almost constantly in a state of rebellion against his teachers, and was finally dismissed from the school.
Still, she had great skill and aptitude for 7000-series operations, as was demonstrated by her work with Coydt.
Men are constantly attempting, without special aptitude, work for which special aptitude is indispensable.
The superiority may be general or special: it may manifest itself in a power of assimilating very various experiences, so as to have manifold relations familiar to it, or in a power of assimilating very special relations, so as to constitute a distinctive aptitude for one branch of art or science.
The art which could give them shape is doubtless intimately dependent on clearness of eye and sincerity of purpose, but it is also something over and above these, and comes from an organic aptitude not less special, when possessed with fulness, than the aptitude for music or drawing.
Fan, there was no way we had the stamina or physical aptitude to carry on.
The most important thing is that we send them somebody with the aptitude to do a certain type of work and the personality to get on with other people in closed and stressful environments.
Everybody knew what the DS were looking for: people with aptitude, who could blend in.
Soldiering was something that they found they had the aptitude for, and they wanted to take the profession to another level.
Even more exciting, Jondalar had begun to show him some techniques of toolmaking, which the lad picked up with an aptitude that surprised them both.
Like a child first learning to speak, she was born with the aptitude and the desire, and she needed only the constant exposure.
That was when Marthona decided I might have an aptitude for stone working and sent word to Dalanar.
He stimulated him, pricked him on, and sought to encourage the remarkable aptitude for mathematics with which he believed him endowed.