Comprehension
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Comprehension has the following meanings:
- In general usage, and more specifically in reference to educationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
and psychologyPsychologyPsychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, it has roughly the same meaning as understandingUnderstandingUnderstanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object....
. - Reading comprehensionReading comprehensionReading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text. ....
measures the understanding of a passage of text - Comprehension (logic)Comprehension (logic)In logic, the comprehension of an object is 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...
, the totality of intensions, that is, properties or qualities, that an object possesses- Comprehension (or comprehensiveness), in AnglicanismAnglicanismAnglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
, the theological inclusiveness and liturgical breadth thought to be integral to the definition of the tradition - Comprehension in set theorySet theorySet theory is the branch of mathematics that studies sets, which are collections of objects. Although any type of object can be collected into a set, set theory is applied most often to objects that are relevant to mathematics...
, another name for the axiom schema of specificationAxiom schema of specificationIn axiomatic set theory and the branches of logic, mathematics, and computer science that use it, the axiom schema of specification, axiom schema of separation, subset axiom scheme or axiom schema of restricted comprehension, is a schema of axioms in Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory...
(or more specifically, the axiom schema of unrestricted specification) - List comprehension, in computer science, an adaptation of mathematical set notation to represent infinite lists
- Comprehension (or comprehensiveness), in Anglicanism