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I0177300 (ĭn′tl-ĕkt′)n.1. a. The ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding: "Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect" (Herbert Spencer).b. A person's individual ability to think and reason: "[His] humanitarianism could never overcome the rigidities of his intellect or the shortcomings of his temperament" (Michael B. Stoff).2. A person of great intellectual ability: "Gifted as both an athlete and an intellect, [he] received help from teachers who recognized his talents" (Anita Silvey).

[Middle English, from Old French intellecte, from Latin intellēctus, perception, from past participle of intellegere, to perceive; see intelligent.]

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(ˈɪntɪˌlɛkt) n1. (Psychology) the capacity for understanding, thinking, and reasoning, as distinct from feeling or wishing2. a mind or intelligence, esp a brilliant one: his intellect is wasted on that job. 3. informal a person possessing a brilliant mind; brain4. those possessing the greatest mental power: the intellect of a nation. [C14: from Latin intellectus comprehension, intellect, from intellegere to understand; see intelligence] ˌintelˈlective adj ˌintelˈlectively adv

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n. 1. the faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels or wills; capacity for thinking and acquiring knowledge. 2. capacity for thinking and acquiring knowledge of a high or complex order. 3. a particular mind or intelligence, esp. of a high order. 4. a person possessing a great capacity for thought and knowledge. 5. minds collectively. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latin intellēctus percerption, n. use of past participle of intelleg(ere) to understand; see intelligent] in`tel•lec′tive, adj. in`tel•lec′tive•ly, adv. syn: See mind.

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heart - As the seat of feeling and intellect, heart has been used since around 825.
intellect, intelligent - Intellect and intelligent come from Latin intelligere, "perceive" or "understand."
intelligible - Means "understandable through the intellect."
inwit - Usually means "an inner sense of right or wrong," but its more general meaning is "reason, intellect, understanding, or wisdom."

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Noun	1.	intellect - knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"mindintelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
	2.	intellect - the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"reason, understandingfaculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
	3.	intellect - a person who uses the mind creativelyintellectualindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"anomalist - someone who has a special interest in exceptional casesexponent - someone who expounds and interprets or explainsalchemist - one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stoneaphorist - someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorismsbel esprit - a witty or clever person with a fine mindclever clogs, clever Dick - an intellectual who is ostentatiously and irritatingly knowledgeabledecipherer, decoder - the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain textegghead - an intellectual; a very studious and academic person; "in spite of her love of reading she denied being an egghead"expositor, expounder - a person who explainsbrainiac, genius, mastermind, Einstein, brain - someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastesmentor, wise man - a wise and trusted guide and advisorbookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplinesdoubter, sceptic, skeptic - someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefsspecifier - someone who draws up specifications giving details (as for obtaining a patent)subjectivist - a person who subscribes to subjectivismsynthesiser, synthesist, synthesizer - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methodsidealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer - someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)creative thinker, thinker, mind - an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century"thinker - someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)illusionist, seer, visionary - a person with unusual powers of foresightwonderer - someone who is curious about something

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noun1. intelligence, mind, reason, understanding, sense, brains (informal), judgment Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?2. (Informal) thinker, intellectual, genius, mind, brain (informal), intelligence, rocket scientist (informal, chiefly U.S.), egghead (informal) My boss isn't a great intellect.Quotations
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality" [Albert Einstein Out of My Later Years]

intellect

noun1. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge:brain (often used in plural), brainpower, intelligence, mentality, mind, sense, understanding, wit.Slang: smart (used in plural).2. A person of great mental ability:brain, intellectual, mind, thinker.

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(ˈintilekt) noun the thinking power of the mind. He was a person of great intellect.智力ˌintelˈlectual (-ˈlektʃuəl) adjective of, or appealing to, the intellect. He does not play football – his interests are mainly intellectual.智力的

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the capacity for understanding, thinking, and reasoning, as distinct from feeling or wishing

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the capacity for thought and rational cognition, in contrast to, for example, such mental capabilities as feelings, will, intuition, and imagination.

The term “intellect” is derived from the Latin translation of the ancient Greek concept nous (mind), and its meaning is identical. In their theories Plato and Aristotle treated nous as the higher, supraindividual, rational part of the human soul; the “mind” as the first stage in emanation of the world, its flow from the single prime source, is a development of Neoplatonism. This meaning of the term was also adopted by medieval Scholasticism (intellect as divine intellect). In contrast to “reason” as the lower cognitive capacity (for elementary abstraction), the term “intellect” was used in Scholasticism to signify a higher cognitive capacity (suprasensory grasping of spiritual essences). These concepts were employed by Kant in an opposite sense: understanding, or intellect (in German, Verstand), as the ability to form concepts, and reason (in German, Vernunft) as the ability to form metaphysical ideas. This word usage became widespread in subsequent German philosophy and was definitively established by Hegel with his concepts of understanding (intellect) and reason. The former as a capacity for abstract-analytical differentiation is a preliminary condition for higher, rational, concrete-dialectical comprehension.

Since the end of the 19th century diverse quantitative methods for evaluating intellect, the level of mental development, by means of special tests and specific systems for statistical processing of these tests in factor analysis have become widespread in experimental psychology.

In animal psychology certain reactions of which higher animals, for the most part monkeys, are capable are regarded as intellect (or “manual thought”). Such reactions are characterized by sudden solutions of problems, easy reproduction of solutions once they have been discovered, their transfer to situations somewhat different from original ones, and, finally, a capacity to solve “two-phase” tasks.

In Soviet psychology the concept of intellect is used mainly in theory of individual-typological features of personality development (see B. M. Teplov, Problemy individual’nykh razlichii, Moscow, 1961, pp. 252–344). On a more general level intellect is a synonym for thought, the mental development of the individual.

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(language)A query language written by Larry Harris in 1977,close to natural English.

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A natural language query program for IBM mainframes developed by Artificial Intelligence Corporation. The company was later acquired by Trinzic Corporation, which was acquired by Platinum, which was acquired by Computer Associates.

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noun intelligence

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noun the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

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noun a person who uses the mind creatively

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