an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.
adjective
functioning as a prototype or model of new product or innovation: a concept car,a concept phone.
verb (used with object)
Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive: He concepted and produced three films.
Origin of concept
1550–60; from Latin conceptum “something conceived,” originally neuter of conceptus (past participle of concipere ), equivalent to con- con- + cep- (variant stem of -cipere, combining form of capere “to seize”) + -tus past participle ending
However, Johnson noted that further research has shown that the same concept works equally well on natural gas and ammonia.
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Vertical farming, a concept that has gained momentum in some Western markets, is still very new in India.
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The company also wanted to propose a voice app idea to the audience and understand how they felt about the emerging technology concept.
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The point of the Scottish experiment was to see if the concept was “logistically, environmentally and economically practical.”
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“The Nikola One was an incredibly successful proof of concept,” the company said Monday.
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But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.
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“The idea was to mess with the concept of Christmas,” recalled John Law, an original Cacophony member.
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The creator Armando Iannucci adapted the concept for an American audience in Veep.
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One of the most romantic—and, some would say, unrealistic—phenomena of American culture is the concept of “the one.”
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But the band grew and grew and we were a force to be reckoned with as a concept.
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Pavlov's book will further explain and clarify the concept of the conditioned response mechanism.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays|Bertrand Russell
Recent contemporary French writers are in no way doubtful of the meaning implied by the concept of Morality.
Morals and the Evolution of Man|Max Simon Nordau
The concept of technical diminishing returns has reference to a limited period of time.
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The faculty of thought generalizes this variety of effects under the concept of heat in general.
The Positive Outcome of Philosophy|Joseph Dietzgen
British Dictionary definitions for concept
concept
/ (ˈkɒnsɛpt) /
noun
an idea, esp an abstract ideathe concepts of biology
philosophya general idea or notion that corresponds to some class of entities and that consists of the characteristic or essential features of the class
philosophy
the conjunction of all the characteristic features of something
a theoretical construct within some theory
a directly intuited object of thought
the meaning of a predicate
(modifier)(of a product, esp a car) created as an exercise to demonstrate the technical skills and imagination of the designers, and not intended for mass production or sale
Word Origin for concept
C16: from Latin conceptum something received or conceived, from concipere to take in, conceive