Usually means: Understanding or grasping meaning thoroughly.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word comprehension:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. comprehension: Merriam-Webster
  2. comprehension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comprehension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comprehension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comprehension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comprehension, comprehension: Wordnik
  7. comprehension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comprehension: Wiktionary
  9. comprehension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comprehension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comprehension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Comprehension, comprehension: Dictionary.com
  13. comprehension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Comprehension (logic), Comprehension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Comprehension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. comprehension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. comprehension: Rhymezone
  18. Comprehension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. comprehension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. comprehension: FreeDictionary.org
  21. comprehension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. comprehension: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. comprehension: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. comprehension: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprehension: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprehension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. comprehension: Medical dictionary
  4. Comprehension: Brain Injury

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprehension: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprehension: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thorough understanding.
noun:  (logic) 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.
noun:  (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
noun:  (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
noun:  (education) Reading comprehension.

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