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Definition of Objective

1. Adjective. Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena. "Objective evidence"

2. Noun. The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable). "The sole object of her trip was to see her children"

3. Adjective. Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes. "Accusative endings"

4. Noun. The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.

5. Adjective. Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation. "Objective art"

6. Adjective. Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events. "There is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"

Definition of Objective

1. a. Of or pertaining to an object.

2. n. The objective case.

Definition of Objective

1. Adjective. of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality ¹

2. Adjective. agreed upon by all parties present (or nearly all); based on consensually observed facts ¹

3. Adjective. not influenced by irrational emotions or prejudices ¹

4. Adjective. (grammar) of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb ¹

5. Noun. A material object that physically exists. ¹

6. Noun. A goal that is striven for. ¹

7. Noun. (grammar) The objective case; a noun or pronoun in that case. ¹

8. Noun. The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Objective

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Objective

1. 1. Perceptible to the external senses. 2. The lens or system of lenses in a microscope (or telescope) that is nearest to the object under examination. Origin: L. Objectivus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Objective

objection objectionability objectionable objectionableness objectionably objectional objections objectist objectists objectivate

objectivated objectivates objectivating objectivation objectivations objective (current term) objective case objective cases objective circle objective clause

objective correlative objective correlatives objective function objective functions objective optometer objective perimetry objective probability objective psychology objective sensation

Literary usage of Objective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"The fag of Post- phrase objective idealism, in the sense in Kantian ideal- ... According to objective idealism, Berkeley's error lay, not in his reduction ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Many of the social sciences predominantly objective in their methods. When we turn from the discussion of art and feeling to certain more practical spheres ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"What the psychologists have in mind is the objective scientist's contruction of ... What, then, is the difference between introspective and objective data? ..."

4. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"derived from experience, and also is not requisite for the possibility thereof, its objective reality can in no way be assured. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"ON SUPPOSED EFFECTS OF STRAIN IN TELESCOPIC objective**. To THE EDITOR OF SCIENCE : In your issue of April 23d (page 656) I notice a criticism by Professor ..."

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