Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word OBJECT

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Definitions of OBJECT

1. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
2. objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
3. A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
4. (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
5. (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
6. (category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
7. (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
8. (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
9. (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
10. (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Examples of Using OBJECT in a Sentence

• An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
• Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model.
• It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure.
• The area of a plane region or plane area refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while surface area refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object.
• In algorithmic information theory (a subfield of computer science and mathematics), the Kolmogorov complexity of an object, such as a piece of text, is the length of a shortest computer program (in a predetermined programming language) that produces the object as output.
• Specifically, he was the first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then enters an eye.
• An object's absolute magnitude is defined to be equal to the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were viewed from a distance of exactly , without extinction (or dimming) of its light due to absorption by interstellar matter and cosmic dust.
• The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, is a religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.
• For example, the pronoun she, as the subject of a clause, is in the nominative case ("She wrote a book"); but if the pronoun is instead the object of the verb, it is in the accusative case and she becomes her ("Fred greeted her").
• The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
• The intense secrecy surrounding the base has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component of unidentified flying object (UFO) folklore.
• The orientation of an object's acceleration is given by the orientation of the net force acting on that object.
• A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.
• As a conceptual object, a book refers to a written work of substantial length, which may be distributed either physically or digitally as an ebook.
• Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection (bundle) of properties, relations or tropes.
• With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.
• The design offers more support for weight than a standard waist belt, without restricting movement of the arms, and while allowing easy access to the object carried.
• Participants jump from a fixed object such as a cliff and after an optional freefall delay deploy a parachute to slow their descent and land.
• It is composed of an object modeling language, an iterative object-oriented development process, and a set of recommended practices.
• A black hole has a great effect on the fate and circumstances of an object crossing it, but it has no locally detectable features according to general relativity.

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