concept

English

Etymology

From Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipere, present active infinitive of concipiō (“to take in, conceive”); see conceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/ SAMPA: /"kQn.sEpt/

Noun

concept (plural concepts)

1. An understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
   • 1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man^[1]:

     The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.

2. (programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.

Synonyms

• conception
• notion

Hyponyms

• conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
• notion
• scheme
• rule, regulation
• property, attribute, dimension
• abstraction, abstract
• quantity
• part, section, division
• whole
• law, natural law, law of nature
• hypothesis
• possibility
• theory
• fact
• rule

Derived terms

• concept map
• high-concept
• macroconcept
• microconcept
• primitive concept
• proof of concept

Related terms

• conceive
• conceptionary
• conceptual
• misconceive
• misconception

Translations

something understood and retained in the mind

Arabic: مفهوم (ar) (mafhuum) m. Armenian: հայեցակարգ (hy) (hayec'akarg) Bulgarian: понятие (bg) n., представа (bg) f. Catalan: concepte (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 概念 (zh) (gàiniàn), 觀念 (zh), 观念 (zh) (guānniàn) Czech: pojem (cs) m. Danish: begreb (da) n., koncept (da) n. Dutch: opvatting (nl) f., begrip (nl) n., concept (nl) n. Esperanto: koncepto (eo) Finnish: käsite (fi), konsepti (fi) French: concept (fr) m., notion (fr) German: Begriff (de) m., Konzept (de) n. Haitian Creole: konsèp Hebrew: מושג (he) (musag) m. Hungarian: elképzelés (hu), fogalom (hu) Icelandic: hugtak (is) Ido: koncepto (io)

Interlingua: concepto Italian: concetto (it) m. Japanese: 概念 (ja) (がいねん, gainen), 観念 (ja) (かんねん, kannen) Korean: 개념 (ko) (gaenyeom) (概念 (ko)), 관념 (ko) (gwannyeom) (觀念 (ko)) Kurdish: مه‌فهوم Norwegian: begrep (no), omgrep (no) Persian: مفهوم (fa) (mafhum) Portuguese: conceito (pt) m. Romanian: concept (ro) n. Russian: концепция (ru) (koncépcija) f., понятие (ru) (ponjátije) n., представление (ru) (predstavlénije) n. Spanish: concepto (es) m. Swedish: koncept (sv), begrepp (sv) n. Tajik: мафҳум (tg) (mafhum) Telugu: భావన (te) (bhaavana) Vietnamese: khái niệm (vi) (概念 (vi)), quan niệm (vi) (觀念 (vi)) Welsh: cysyniad (cy) m.

See also

essential fundamental idea

meaning pattern thought

External links

• concept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• concept in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Concept on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Concept in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Dutch

Noun

concept n. (plural concepten, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. concept
2. draft, sketch

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ̃sɛpt/, X-SAMPA: /kO~sEpt/
• Rhymes: -ɛpt
• Homophone: concepts

Noun

concept m. (plural concepts)

1. concept

Synonyms

• connaissance
• idée
• notion

Related terms

• concepteur
• conception
• conceptualiser
• conceptualisation
• conceptuel
• conceptuellement
• concevoir

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptus.

Noun

concept n. (plural concepte)

1. concept

Related terms

• concepe
• concepere
• conceptibil
• conceptibilitate
• conceptism
• conceptual
• conceptualism
• conceptualist
• conceptualiza
• conceptualizat (past participle of conceptualiza)
• conceptualizare
• concepție
• concepțional

Declension

declension of concept

	singular		plural
gender n.	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un concept	conceptul	niște concepte	conceptele
genitive/dative	unui concept	conceptului	unor concepte	conceptelor