Objective



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 客观的;n. 目标
• ［英］ adj. 客观的 ( not influenced by personal opinions) ; n. 目标 ( an aim)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Date: 1647
• 1.
  • a. relating to or existing as an object of thought without consideration of independent existence — used chiefly in medieval philosophy
  • b. of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers ; having reality independent of the mind <objective reality><our reveries…are significantly and repeatedly shaped by our transactions with the objective world — Marvin Reznikoff> — compare subjective 3a
  • c. of a symptom of disease perceptible to persons other than the affected individual — compare subjective 4c
  • d. involving or deriving from sense perception or experience with actual objects, conditions, or phenomena <objective awareness><objective data>
• 2. relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs
• 3.
  • a. expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations <objective art><an objective history of the war><an objective judgment>
  • b. of a test limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum
• Synonyms: see material, fair
• ? objectively adverb
• ? objectiveness noun
• ? objectivity noun

II. noun

• Date: 1835
• 1. a lens or system of lenses that forms an image of an object
• 2.
  • a. something toward which effort is directed ; an aim, goal, or end of action
  • b. a strategic position to be attained or a purpose to be achieved by a military operation
• Synonyms: see intention

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