CPage 481
- English Word Comprehension Definition The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
- English Word Comprehension Definition The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
- English Word Comprehension Definition A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
- English Word Comprehensive Definition Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
- English Word Comprehensive Definition Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
- English Word Comprehensive Definition Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
- English Word Comprehensively Definition In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
- English Word Comprehensiveness Definition The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
- English Word Comprehensor Definition One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge.
- English Word Compress Definition To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
- English Word Compress Definition To embrace sexually.
- English Word Compress Definition A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
- English Word Compressed Definition of Compress
- English Word Compressed Definition Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
- English Word Compressed Definition Flattened lengthwise.
- English Word Compressibility Definition The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
- English Word Compressible Definition Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
- English Word Compressibleness Definition The quality of being compressible; compressibility.
- English Word Compressing Definition of Compress
- English Word Compression Definition The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.