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English Dictionary: comprehensive	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for comprehensive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
comprehensive adj including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" Antonym(s): incomprehensive, noncomprehensive broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs" n an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge; "she took her comps in English literature" Synonym(s): comprehensive examination, comprehensive, comp
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Comprehensive \Com`prehen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. compr[82]hensif.] 1. Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive* definition. --Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. --Channing. 2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things. [bd]His comprehensive head.[b8] --Pope. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups. Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups. Synthetic, as used by Agassiz, is nearly synonymous. Syn: Extensive; wide; large; full; compendious.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
COMPREHENSIVE An early system on {MIT}'s {Whirlwind}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. (2002-06-03)