Comprehension

See also: comprehensión and compréhension

Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) +‎ prehendō (“take”).

comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)

Thorough understanding.
Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
(logic) 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.
(programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
(Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.

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Comprehension may refer to:

Comprehension (logic), the totality of intensions, that is, properties or qualities, that an object possesses
Comprehension approach, several methodologies of language learning that emphasize understanding language rather than speaking
Comprehension axiom, an axiom in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory in mathematics
List comprehension, an adaptation of mathematical set notation to represent lists in computer science
Reading comprehension, a measurement of the understanding of a passage of text
Understanding, ability to think about and to deal adequately with an idea