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KNOWLEDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("knowledge" is a kind of...):
psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knowledge"):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
history (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge)
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)
perception (knowledge gained by perceiving)
process; unconscious process (a mental process that you are not directly aware of)
cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)
equivalent (a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc)
cognitive factor (something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result)
practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)
lexicon; mental lexicon; vocabulary (a language user's knowledge of words)
lexis (all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function)
inability (lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something)
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
episteme (the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time)
general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)
place (an abstract mental location)
brain; head; mind; nous; psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason)
Context examples:
“Of course, our knowledge of red supergiants remains incomplete, and this is still a work in progress, so a surprise can still happen.”
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
Increased knowledge of the long-term effects of volcanoes on carbon dioxide and how they may be buffered by biological processes is important for evaluating natural and human impacts on climate.
(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)
Knowledge of offshore strain accumulation and release processes is critical to understanding shallow-water earthquakes and tsunamis.
(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)
I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The idea of immediately seeing him, with the knowledge of what he must be suffering, brought back all her own first feelings.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A unit of knowledge created by a unique combination of characteristics.
(Concept, NCI Thesaurus)
An ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result).
(Comprehension, NCI Thesaurus)
Knowledge of E2F-1 activity and its regulation form part of the complex set of interactions regulating the cell cycle and potential targets for the treatment of cancer.
(E2F1 Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This knowledge is employed to help design and evaluate drugs for the prevention and treatment of disease.
(Pharmacologist, NCI Thesaurus)
A response format that allows a respondent to answer using their own knowledge and/or feelings, without specified response categories.
(Open-ended Response Format, NCI Thesaurus)
