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/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ · com·pre·hen·sion
noun
- Thorough understanding of a subject or concept. Her comprehension of quantum mechanics allowed her to solve the problem quickly.
- The totality of intensions—attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities—that an object possesses, or that are pertinent to a given discussion. Philosophers speak of the comprehension of a concept as the full set of properties that define it.
- A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages. In Haskell, the list comprehension [x*2 | x <- xs, even x] produces a list of doubled even numbers.
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Did you know? The programming construct ‘list comprehension’ was popularized by the Haskell language in the 1990s, borrowing the linguistic sense of ‘comprehension’ to describe a concise way of building lists.