conceptual
[kuh n-sep-choo-uh l]
Origin of conceptual
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They wrote some big checks so we could do the conceptual work.
Vampires without Glitter or Girl Problems: Inside Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Strain’Andrew Romano
July 14, 2014
“There is a conceptual leap that the first assessor used,” Feldman said.
The work requested was already complete, produced on her terms, so no intellectual or conceptual was required.
They seem to demand a framing text as much as any work of conceptual art ever could.
In his Second Treatise of Government, Locke helped lay the conceptual groundwork for the American rebellion.
Historical Examples
We then compared the mechanism of conceptual thought to that of the cinematograph.
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
Conceptual logic, on the other hand, is false from the start.
The realities which arose were not of sense but conceptual, ideal.
Life's Basis and Life's IdealRudolf Eucken
The conceptual is related to the objective as a train of cars is related to the railway.
The Mystery of SpaceRobert T. Browne
Rapid Dominance is a first conceptual step to deal with this possibility.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
conceptual
- relating to or concerned with concepts; abstract
- concerned with the definitions or relations of the concepts of some field of enquiry rather than with the facts
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Word Origin and History for conceptual
adj.
1820, "pertaining to mental conception" (there is an isolated use from 1662), from Medieval Latin conceptualis, from Latin conceptus "a collecting, gathering, conceiving," past participle of concipere (see conceive). Related: Conceptualism; conceptualist.
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conceptual
(kən-sĕp′chōō-əl)- Relating to concepts or the the formation of concepts.
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