An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

To form a notion or idea of.

M.E., from O.Fr. conceivre, from L. concipere "to take fully, take in," → concept.

Verb from begert, → concept.

1) To bring or draw to a common center or point of union.
2) Of a solution, to make denser, stronger, or purer, esp. by the removal or reduction of liquid.

Verb with p.p. → concentrated.

1) Gathered together closely.
2) Made denser, purer.

Past participle of → concentrate.

1) Past participle of hammarkazidan, → concentrate.
2) Dabz "dense, thick, concentrated, coarse," variants dafzak and gabz; Av. bəzuuant- "thick, dense," bazah- "thickness, denseness;" Baluchi baz "thick, coarse;" Zazaki vezdin "oily, greasy" Ossetic bæzgin "thick, dense;" cf. Skt. bamh "to thicken, become dense;" Gk. pakhos "thickness, density;" PIE base b^heng^h- "to become/make dense, thick" (see Cheung 2007).

1) The act of concentrating or the state of being concentrated.
2) Chemistry: A measure of the amount of dissolved substance contained per unit of volume in a solution.

Verbal noun from → concentrate.

Having a common center, as circles or spheres.

From O.Fr. concentrique, from M.L. concentricus, from → com- "together" + centrum "circle, center."

ham- + centric, from → center

A lens having surfaces whose centers of curvature coincide.

→ concentric; → lens.

1) Something → conceived in the → mind; a constituent of → thought.
2) The generic term for the members of a given → class of any sort, or the → term for the class itself. In other words, a unit of → knowledge abstracted from a set of characteristics or properties attributed to a class of objects, relations, or entities.

From M.L. conceptus "something conceived," p.p. of concipere "to take in," from → com- intensive prefix + cipere, combining form of capere "to take," PIE base *kap- "to grasp;" cf. Skt. kapati "two handfuls;" Gk. kaptein "to swallow;" O.Ir. cacht "servant-girl," literally "captive;" Goth. haban "have, hold;" O.E. habban "to have, hold;" Av. haf-, hap- "to keep, observe;" probably Mod.Pers. kapidan, qâpidan "to seize."

Begert "seized, taken, caught; supposed, imagined," from intensive prefix be- "to, for, in, on, with, by" (→ ad hoc) + gert, from gerté, variant of gerefté "seized, taken," from gereftan "to seize, take, catch; to suppose, imagine," as in Laki gert, gerten, Lori gereta, Kurd. girtin "to take, seize, catch;" Abyâne-yi geratan, Ardestâni girette, Abuzeydâbâdi grata; Mid.Pers. griftan, Av./O.Pers. grab- "to take, to seize," cf. Skt. grah-, grabh- "to seize, to take," graha "seizing, holding, perceiving;" M.L.G. grabben "to grab;" Gothic greipan, O.H.G. grifan, Ger. greifen "to seize," begreifen "to seize, understand," Begriff "concept;" E. grab "to take or grasp suddenly;" PIE *g^hrebh- "to seize."

A chart showing a central concept with suggested relationships with other concepts, which are subtopics of the central concept. The map is ordered into a tree structure with multiple branches.

→ concept; → map.

1) The act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
2) The process of arriving at an abstract idea or belief.

Verbal noun of → conceive.

Of, relating to, or consisting of concepts.

→ concept + → -al.

Same as → concept map.

→ conceptual; → diagram.

Any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts (Dictionary.com).

→ conceptual; → -ism.

The act or result of forming into a → concept.

→ conceptual + → -ize.

To form a → concept of or to interpret conceptually.

→ conceptual + → -ize.

1) To relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect.
2a) Marked interest or regard usually arising through a personal tie or relationship.
2b) Matter for consideration.

M.E. concernen, from M.Fr. concerner, from M.L. concernere "to concern, touch, belong to," from L. concernere "to sift, mix, as in a sieve," from → com- "with" + cernere "to sift," hence "perceive, comprehend," → crisis.

Hâžidan (Dehxodâ, Steingass) "to look at, to see; to be distracted, at a loss" (on the model of E. regard, as regards, regarding), maybe ultimately from Proto-Ir. *Haxš- "to guard, supervise, to look, see;" cf. Av. aiβiiāxš- "to guard, supervise;" Mid.Pers. 'xšyn- "to hear;" Gazi b-âš "look!;" Yaghnobi yaxš- "to be seen, visible;" Skt. áksi- "eye;" Gk. osse "both eyes;" L. oculus "eye" (Cheung 2007).

1a) Involved in something or affected by it.
1b) Having a connection or involvement; participating.
2) Troubled or anxious.

Past participle of → concern.

Relating to; regarding; about.

→ concern; → -ing.

To bring or come to an end; to determine, settle, or arrange finally.

From L. concluere "to close, end an argument," from → con- "together" + claudere "to close, shut," → include.

Âkolândan, from â- nuance/intensive prefix + kolândan "to shut," → include.

1) The act of concluding; the end or last part.
2) Logic: Of an argument, the → sentence whose → truth is to be established.

Verbal noun of → conclude.

Serving to put an end to debate; decisive; definitive; convincing.

Adj. from → conclude.