| objective (def. 2a). |
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b-jek-tiv] 
| 1. | something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive. |
| 2. | Grammar.
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| 3. | Also called object glass, object lens, objective lens. Optics. (in a telescope, microscope, camera, or other optical system) the lens or combination of lenses that first receives the rays from the object and forms the image in the focal plane of the eyepiece, as in a microscope, or on a plate or screen, as in a camera. |
| 4. | being the object or goal of one's efforts or actions. |
| 5. | not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion. |
| 6. | intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book. |
| 7. | being the object of perception or thought; belonging to the object of thought rather than to the thinking subject (opposed to subjective ). |
| 8. | of or pertaining to something that can be known, or to something that is an object or a part of an object; existing independent of thought or an observer as part of reality. |
| 9. | Grammar.
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| 10. | being part of or pertaining to an object to be drawn: an objective plane. |
| 11. | Medicine/Medical. (of a symptom) discernible to others as well as the patient. |
A grammatical term indicating that a noun or pronoun is an object. (See case and nominative case.)
objective ob·jec·tive (əb-jěk'tĭv)
n.
The lens or lenses in the lower end of a microscope or other optical instrument that first receives light rays from the object being examined and forms its image. adj.
Based on observable phenomena; presented factually.
Indicating a symptom or condition perceived as a sign of disease by someone other than the person affected.