concept
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus, from concipiō ("to take in, conceive").
Pronunciation Nounconcept (plural concepts)
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
- (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
- French: concept, notion
- German: Begriff, Konzept
- Italian: concetto, ipotesi
- Portuguese: conceito
- Russian: конце́пция
- Spanish: concepto
concept (concepts, present participle concepting; simple past and past participle concepted)
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