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See also: comprehensión and compréhension
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
Pronunciation
Noun
comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)
- A thorough understanding.
- Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
- 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, , page 428:
- What appeal to him are the broad visions, the specious comprehension of the social order as a whole which a planned system promises.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- (education) Reading comprehension.
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thorough understanding
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