conceptual
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| —adj | |
| 1. | relating to or concerned with concepts; abstract |
| 2. | concerned with the definitions or relations of the concepts of some field of enquiry rather than with the facts |
| con'ceptually | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
conceptual
1834, "pertaining to mental conception," apparently coined by Coleridge (there is an isolated use from 1662), from M.L. conceptualis, from conceptus "a conceiving," pp. of concipere (see conceive).
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Medical Dictionary
conceptual con·cep·tu·al (kən-sěp'ch&oomacr;-əl)
adj.
Relating to concepts or the the formation of concepts.
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Example sentences
Variable clocks are not a problem in reality, they are a problem for our simplified conceptual models.
They are also promoting one important conceptual change: the pricing of fossil fuel.
It's only by giving a name to something that it obtains a conceptual reality.
It did add many good features to encapsulate objects, and provide many conceptual tools.
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