concept

Meanings

Noun

• 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).
• A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Verb

• to conceive; to dream up

Related

Similar words

• conception
• notion
• abstraction

Narrower meaning words

• conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
• notion
• scheme
• rule, regulation
• property, attribute, dimension
• abstraction, abstract
• quantity
• part, section, division
• whole
• law, natural law, law of nature
• hypothesis
• possibility
• theory
• fact
• rule

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus ("a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc."), from concipiō. conceit. See conceive.