"comprehension" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ [UK], /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ [US], /ˌkɔmpɹɪˈhenʃn̩/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-comprehension.wav [Southern-England] Forms: comprehensions [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʰed-}}, {{bor|en|frm|compréhension}} Middle French compréhension, {{der|en|la|comprehensiō|t=taking together}} Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), {{af|la|com-|prehendō|nocat=1|t1=with, together|t2=take}} com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)
  1. Thorough understanding. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (thorough understanding): κατάληψις (katálēpsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), فَهْم (fahm) [masculine] (Arabic), разуме́нне (razumjénnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), разби́ране (razbírane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), схващане (shvaštane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), comprensió [feminine] (Catalan), 理解 (lǐjiě) (Chinese Mandarin), 瞭解 (Chinese Mandarin), 了解 (liǎojiě) (Chinese Mandarin), 了解 (liǎojiě) (note: simplified & variant traditional form) (Chinese Mandarin), porozumění [neuter] (Czech), pochopení [neuter] (Czech), chápání [neuter] (Czech), begrijpen (Dutch), kompreno (Esperanto), ymmärrys (Finnish), käsityskyky (Finnish), compréhension [feminine] (French), entendement [masculine] (French), comprensión [feminine] (Galician), Verständnis [neuter] (German), Verstehen [neuter] (German), הֲבָנָה (havaná) [feminine] (Hebrew), kompreno (Ido), comprensione [feminine] (Italian), 理解 (rikai) (alt: りかい) (Japanese), 了解 (ryōkai) (alt: りょうかい) (Japanese), 이해 (ihae) (alt: 理解) (Korean), 리해 (rihae) (alt: 理解) [North-Korea] (Korean), 요해 (yohae) (alt: 了解) (Korean), 료해 (ryohae) (alt: 了解) [North-Korea] (Korean), разбирање (razbiranje) [neuter] (Macedonian), сфаќање (sfaḱanje) (Macedonian), aroā (Maori), aroātanga (Maori), बोध (bodh) (Nepali), forståelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), begripelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), فهم (fahm) (Persian), zrozumienie [neuter] (Polish), pojmowanie [neuter] (Polish), compreensão [feminine] (Portuguese), comprehensiune [feminine] (Romanian), понима́ние (ponimánije) [neuter] (Russian), поня́тие (ponjátije) [neuter] (Russian), осмысле́ние (osmyslénije) [neuter] (Russian), разуме́ние (razuménije) [neuter] (Russian), разумевање [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), razumevanje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), pochopenie [neuter] (Slovak), porozumenie [neuter] (Slovak), razumevanje [neuter] (Slovene), comprensión [feminine] (Spanish), entendimiento [masculine] (Spanish), förståelse [common-gender] (Swedish), katalusan (Tagalog), talos (Tagalog), фаҳм (fahm) (Tajik), anlayış (Turkish), розумі́ння (rozumínnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), зрозумі́ння (zrozumínnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-comprehension-en-noun-MP9bsJmo Disambiguation of 'thorough understanding': 95 2 2 1
  2. (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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Logic
    Sense id: en-comprehension-en-noun-z4mrLzwr Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
  3. (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-comprehension-en-noun-cCmqNdv7 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  4. (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-comprehension-en-noun-gdI6RERp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 13 26 49 Topics: Christianity
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: understanding Derived forms: listening comprehension, reading comprehension Related terms: comprehend, comprehensibility, comprehensible, comprehensive, comprehensiveness

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "thorough understanding",
          "word": "aroā"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "thorough understanding",
          "word": "aroātanga"
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          "code": "ne",
          "lang": "Nepali",
          "roman": "bodh",
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          "word": "बोध"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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          "_dis1": "95 2 2 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "thorough understanding",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zrozumienie"
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          "_dis1": "95 2 2 1",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "thorough understanding",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "pojmowanie"
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          "sense": "thorough understanding",
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          "word": "понима́ние"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.