comprehension
/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ noun B2- A thorough understanding. · Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
- 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.
- A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- Reading comprehension.
Plural comprehensions
From the library
“How an English gentleman could behave in such a manner is beyond my comprehension.
There still remained some lurking suspicion in my mind, however, that the whole thing was a pre-arranged episode, intended to dazzle me, though what earthly object he could have in taking me in was past my comprehension.
“I say, that when a thing completely surpasses my comprehension, I am accustomed not to dwell on that thing, but to pass to another.
She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension; and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
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