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con⋅cept
[kon-sept] 
–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
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.
[Late Latin conceptus, from Latin, past participle of concipere, to conceive; see conceive.] |
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