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concept
[ kon-sept ]
noun
- a general notion or idea; conception.
- an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
- a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.
adjective
- functioning as a prototype or model of new product or innovation:
a concept car,
a concept phone.
verb (used with object)
- Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive:
He concepted and produced three films.
concept
/ ˈkɒnsɛpt /
noun
- an idea, esp an abstract idea
the concepts of biology
- philosophy a general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class
- philosophy
- the conjunction of all the characteristic features of something
- a theoretical construct within some theory
- a directly intuited object of thought
- the meaning of a predicate
- modifier (of a product, esp a car) created as an exercise to demonstrate the technical skills and imagination of the designers, and not intended for mass production or sale
Word History and Origins
Origin of concept1
Word History and Origins
Origin of concept1
Example Sentences
However, Johnson noted that further research has shown that the same concept works equally well on natural gas and ammonia.
Vertical farming, a concept that has gained momentum in some Western markets, is still very new in India.
The company also wanted to propose a voice app idea to the audience and understand how they felt about the emerging technology concept.
The point of the Scottish experiment was to see if the concept was “logistically, environmentally and economically practical.”
“The Nikola One was an incredibly successful proof of concept,” the company said Monday.
One of the most persistent myths in American politics is the media-fueled concept of the lame duck.
Think about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”
But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.
“The idea was to mess with the concept of Christmas,” recalled John Law, an original Cacophony member.
Privilege can be a hard concept to get a handle on, especially for those who are immersed in it and reaping the benefits.
To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.
This is inconsistent with the ordinarily accepted concept of subspecies.
An underlying fallacy of Socialism is the concept that poverty or at least extreme poverty, can be banished from the world.
The concept is based upon an unfounded belief in the competence of the average man.
Their minds had had no concept of such horror, such relentless, racking pain.
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