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Objective
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- 1 Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- 2 Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices.
- 3 Based on observed facts; without purely subjective assessment.
"Engagement of employees in the Public Administration and in the wider Public Sector, ..., shall take place either by competitive entry examination or by selection on the basis of predefined and objective criteria, and shall be subject to the control of an independent authority, as specified by law."
- 4 Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
"Let us now glance at the demonstrative and relative pronouns. Of the former there are but two in English, this and that, with their plural forms, these and those. To them, American adds a third, them, which is also the personal pronoun of the third person, objective case."
- 5 Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
"The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object."
- 1 belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events wordnet
- 2 undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena wordnet
- 3 emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation wordnet
- 4 serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes wordnet
- 1 A material object that physically exists.
- 2 the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed wordnet
- 3 A goal that is striven for.
"His [Henry Sweet's] true objective was the provision of a full, accurate, legible script for our noble but ill-dressed language; but he was led past that by his contempt for the popular Pitman system of Shorthand, which he called the Pitfall system."
- 4 the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) wordnet
- 5 The objective case.
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- 6 a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- 7 The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
Etymology
From Middle English obgectyf, from Middle French objectif and its etymon Medieval Latin obiectīvus. By surface analysis, object + -ive.
From Middle English obgectyf, from Middle French objectif and its etymon Medieval Latin obiectīvus. By surface analysis, object + -ive.
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