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con⋅cept

  [kon-sept]
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–noun
1. a general notion or idea; conception.
2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
3. a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.
–verb (used with object)
4. Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive: Experts pooled their talents to concept the new car.
Origin:
1550–60; < L conceptum something conceived, orig. neut. of conceptus (ptp. of concipere), equiv. to con- con- + cep- (var. s. of -cipere, comb. form of capere to seize) + -tus ptp. ending
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con·cept   (kŏn'sěpt')   
n.  

  1. A general idea derived or inferred from specific instances or occurrences.

  2. Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion. See Synonyms at idea.

  3. A scheme; a plan: "began searching for an agency to handle a new restaurant concept" (ADWEEK).


[Late Latin conceptus, from Latin, past participle of concipere, to conceive; see conceive.]
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Word Origin & History

concept 
1556, from M.L. conceptum "draft, abstract," in L. "(a thing) conceived," from pp. of concipere "to take in" (see conceive). In some 16c. cases a refashioning of conceit (perhaps to avoid negative connotations); conception in the womb sense was c.1300.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: con·cept
Pronunciation: 'kän-"sept
Function: noun
1 : something conceived in the mind
2 : an abstract orgeneric idea generalized from particular instances
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Medical Dictionary

concept con·cept (kŏn'sěpt')
n.

  1. An abstract idea or notion.

  2. An explanatory principle in a scientific system. Also called conception.

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concept

in the Analytic school of philosophy, the subject matter of philosophy, which philosophers of the Analytic school hold to be concerned with the salient features of the language in which people speak of concepts at issue. Concepts are thus logical, not mental, entities. A typical instance of the use of concept is in The Concept of Mind (1949) by Gilbert Ryle, an Oxford Analyst, which implies that the purpose of the author is not to investigate matters of fact empirically (i.e., by the methods of psychology) about the mind itself but to investigate its "logical geography." Similarly, investigation of the logical features of discourse about pleasure or duty or remembering is concerned with the concepts of pleasure or duty or memory. To be able to use these linguistic expressions is to apply, or possess, the concepts.

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