OBJECTIVE
\ɒbd͡ʒˈɛktɪv], \ɒbdʒˈɛktɪv], \ɒ_b_dʒ_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of OBJECTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
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emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; "objective art"
By Princeton University
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undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
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emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; "objective art"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
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Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
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An object glass. See under Object, n.
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Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
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Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
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An object glass. See under Object, n.
By Noah Webster.
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The point or purpose toward which any action is directed; an aim; in grammar, the case of a word governed by a transitive active verb or a preposition, or the word so governed; the lens of a microscope or telescope nearest to the object to be observed and forming the image.
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Belonging to a material thing; being outside of the mind: opposite to subjective, or existing only in the mind; in grammar, noting the case which follows, and is governed by, a transitive active verb or a preposition.
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Objectively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Objectively.
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Relating to an object: being exterior to the mind: as opp. to subjective, that which is real or which exists in nature, in contrast with what is ideal or exists merely in the thought of the individual: (gram.) belonging to the case of the object.
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The case of the object: (war) the point to which the operations of an army are directed.
By Daniel Lyons
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Objectively.
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Belonging to an object, purpose, or aim.
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External to the ming; outward.
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An objective point.
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Objecter.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The lens or lenses in the lower end of a microscope, by means of which the rays coming from the object examined are brought to a focus.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Objectiveness, objectivity.
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Relating to an object; exterior to the mind; denoting the case which follows a transitive verb.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Belonging to the object or to what is external to the mind, as it exists apart from the mind apprehending or conceiving it; without any trace of a merely subjective element. Objective case, that which follows and depends on a transitive verb or preposition.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Relating to whatever is exterior to the mind; external; in meta., contrasted with and opposed to subjective-subjective denoting that which is to be referred to the thinker, and objective that which belongs to the thing thought of; in gram., the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Perceptible to the senses.
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Same as Object-glass.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of symptoms, revealed by physical examination, as opposed to those that are subjective.
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A lens or combination of lenses in an optical instrument which is next the object and serves to form a real image of it. With the microscope and telescope this real image is then observed with an ocular. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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