content

Meanings

Adjective

• Satisfied, pleased, contented.
• Contained.

Noun

• Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
• Acquiescence without examination.
• That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
• An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
• A member who votes in assent.
• That which is contained.
• Subject matter; that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
• The amount of material contained; contents.
• Capacity for containing.
• The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon).
• The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.

Interjection

• Alright, agreed.

Verb

• To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
• To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

Origin

• From Middle French content ("satisfied"), from Latin contentus ("contained; satisfied"), past participle of continēre.
• From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of continēre, as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.