perception or understanding: His comprehension of physics is amazing for a young student.
capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; power to grasp ideas; ability to know.
Logic. the connotation of a term.
inclusion.
comprehensiveness.
Origin of comprehension
1400–50; late Middle English <Latin comprehēnsiōn- (stem of comprehēnsiō), equivalent to comprehēns(us) (past participle of comprehendere to comprehend) + -iōn--ion
Other species would be able to think about and solve problems in ways that are outside our space of comprehension.
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The TI-84 Plus CE makes comprehension and mastery of math and science topics quicker, easier, lighter, and brighter with color graphing and a slim design.
The best graphing calculators for students|PopSci Commerce Team|September 4, 2020|Popular Science
Even today, chiaroscuro remains a powerful tool of discovery and comprehension.
These Images Expose the Dark Side of the Solar System - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Corey S. Powell|August 26, 2020|Nautilus
Below are some illustrations of its lack of comprehension—all, as we will see later, prefigured in an earlier critique that one of us wrote about GPT-3’s predecessor.
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about|Amy Nordrum|August 22, 2020|MIT Technology Review
It certainly won’t help identify life beyond our own solar system, which could be completely beyond human comprehension, like the sentient ocean of plasma that the writer Stanisław Lem imagined in his 1961 novel Solaris.
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.|Jordana Cepelewicz|July 16, 2020|Quanta Magazine
It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.
‘Sesame Street’ Is Middle-Aged and Awesome|Emily Shire|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nothing defeats my powers of comprehension like the deliberate harm of a child.
When Table Salt Becomes Poison|Russell Saunders|June 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is nostalgia as a recording exercise rather than a lesson in empathy or comprehension.
If the book were reducible to a thesis, it might be the simple claim that some things exceed our capacity for comprehension.
Barbara Ehrenreich Gives God a Going Over in Her New Book|Nick Romeo|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That a company would even consider such a plan is beyond my comprehension.
Winthrop Roosevelt on the Oil Boom that Threatens His Great-Great-Grandfather’s Legacy|Winthrop Roosevelt|April 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
All social cohesion and co-operation rest on this comprehension, and are limited by its degree of perfection.
Illusions|James Sully
Goliath, it must be explained, was not killed, since death would involve explanations beyond the comprehension of H. 3rd.
Seeing Things at Night|Heywood Broun
This was a degree of unselfishness beyond the comprehension of Carlos just then.
The Spanish Brothers|Deborah Alcock
The apologue is quite clear; and yet a certain amount of intelligence is necessary for its comprehension.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)|Anatole France
She was behind her children in comprehension, strange as it seems to say so.
The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 1(of 3)|Margaret Oliphant
British Dictionary definitions for comprehension
comprehension
/ (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən) /
noun
the act or capacity of understanding
the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
educationan exercise consisting of a previously unseen passage of text with related questions, designed to test a student's understanding esp of a foreign language
logicobsoletethe attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation