EGAVE

comprehension

About 7.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A thorough understanding.
    Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
  2. noun The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
  3. noun A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
  4. noun The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
  5. noun Reading comprehension.

Similar words

inclusion comprising understood understandability understand understanding intelligibility knowledge awareness insight

Often followed by

of and is in questions skills test by or

Word family

comprehensions

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