[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

object \ob"ject\ o^b"je^kt, n. l. objectus. see object,
   v. t.
   1. that which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the
      way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible
      and persists for an appreciable time; as, he observed an
      object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he
      touched a strange object in the dark.
      1913 webster

   2. anything which is set, or which may be regarded as set,
      before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of
      which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance,
      whether a thing external in space or a conception formed
      by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder,
      fear, thought, study, etc.
      1913 webster

            object is a term for that about which the knowing
            subject is conversant; what the schoolmen have
            styled the "materia circa quam."      --sir. w.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster

            the object of their bitterest hatred. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. that toward which the mind, or any of its activities, is
      directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end
      of action or effort; that which is sought for; goal; end;
      aim; motive; final cause.
      1913 webster

            object, beside its proper signification, came to be
            abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause
            . . . . this innovation was probably borrowed from
            the french.                           --sir. w.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster

            let our object be, our country, our whole country,
            and nothing but our country.          --d. webster.
      1913 webster

   4. sight; show; appearance; aspect. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

            he, advancing close
            up to the lake, past all the rest, arose
            in glorious object.                   --chapman.
      1913 webster

   5. gram. a word, phrase, or clause toward which an action
      is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the
      object of a transitive verb.
      1913 webster

   6. computers any set of data that is or can be manipulated
      or referenced by a computer program as a single entity; --
      the term may be used broadly, to include files, images
      such as icons on the screen, or small data structures.
      more narrowly, anything defined as an object within an
      object-oriented programming language.
      pjc

   7. ontology anything which exists and which has attributes;
      distinguished from attributes, processes, and
      relations.
      pjc

   object glass, the lens, or system of lenses, placed at the
      end of a telescope, microscope, etc., which is toward the
      object. its function is to form an image of the object,
      which is then viewed by the eyepiece. called also
      objective or objective lens. see illust. of
      microscope.

   object lesson, a lesson in which object teaching is made
      use of.

   object staff. leveling same as leveling staff.

   object teaching, a method of instruction, in which
      illustrative objects are employed, each new word or idea
      being accompanied by a representation of that which it
      signifies; -- used especially in the kindergarten, for
      young children.
      1913 webster
see also:
object attributes processes relations object glass objective 
objective lens microscope object lesson object staff leveling staff 
object teaching 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

objective \objec"tive\ o^bje^k"ti^v, a. cf. f.
   objectif.
   1. of or pertaining to an object.
      1913 webster

   2. metaph. of or pertaining to an object; contained in, or
      having the nature or position of, an object; outward;
      external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever is
      exterior to the mind, or which is simply an object of
      thought or feeling, as opposed to being related to
      thoughts of feelings, and opposed to subjective.
      1913 webster +pjc

            in the middle ages, subject meant substance, and has
            this sense in descartes and spinoza: sometimes,
            also, in reid. subjective is used by william of
            occam to denote that which exists independent of
            mind; objective, what is formed by the mind. this
            shows what is meant by realitas objectiva in
            descartes. kant and fichte have inverted the
            meanings. subject, with them, is the mind which
            knows; object, that which is known; subjective, the
            varying conditions of the knowing mind; objective,
            that which is in the constant nature of the thing
            known.                                --trendelenburg.
      1913 webster

            objective has come to mean that which has
            independent existence or authority, apart from our
            experience or thought. thus, moral law is said to
            have objective authority, that is, authority
            belonging to itself, and not drawn from anything in
            our nature.                           --calderwood
                                                  fleming's
                                                  vocabulary.
      1913 webster

   3. hence: unbiased; unprejudiced; fair; uninfluenced by
      personal feelings or personal interests; considering only
      the facts of a situation unrelated to the observer; -- of
      judgments, opinions, evaluations, conclusions, reasoning
      processes.
      pjc

            objective means that which belongs to, or proceeds
            from, the object known, and not from the subject
            knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in
            opposition to that which is ideal -- what exists in
            nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the
            thought of the individual.            --sir. w.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster

   4. gram. pertaining to, or designating, the case which
      follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that
      case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. see
      accusative, n.
      1913 webster

   note: the objective case is frequently used without a
         governing word, esp. in designations of time or space,
         where a preposition, as at, in, on, etc., may be
         supplied.
         1913 webster

               my troublous dream on this night doth make me
               sad.                               --shak.
         1913 webster

               to write of victories in or for next year.
                                                  --hudibras.
         1913 webster

   objective line perspective, a line drawn on the
      geometrical plane which is represented or sought to be
      represented.

   objective plane perspective, any plane in the horizontal
      plane that is represented.

   objective point, the point or result to which the
      operations of an army are directed. by extension, the
      point or purpose to which anything, as a journey or an
      argument, is directed.
      1913 webster

   syn: objective, subjective.

   usage: objective is applied to things exterior to the mind,
          and objects of its attention; subjective, to the
          operations of the mind itself. hence, an objective
          motive is some outward thing awakening desire; a
          subjective motive is some internal feeling or
          propensity. objective views are those governed by
          outward things; subjective views are produced or
          modified by internal feeling. sir walter scott's
          poetry is chiefly objective; that of wordsworth is
          eminently subjective.
          1913 webster

                in the philosophy of mind, subjective denotes
                what is to be referred to the thinking subject,
                the ego; objective what belongs to the object of
                thought, the non-ego.             --sir. w.
                                                  hamilton
          1913 webster
see also:
subjective accusative objective line objective plane objective point objective 
subjective 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

objective \objec"tive\, n.
   1. gram. the objective case.
      1913 webster

   2. an object glass; called also objective lens. see under
      object, n.
      1913 webster

   3. same as objective point, under objective, a.
      1913 webster
see also:
object glass objective lens object objective point objective 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

objective
     adj 1: undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable
            phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective
            evidence" syn: nonsubjective ant: subjective
     2: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain
        prepositions and used for certain other purposes;
        "objective case"; "accusative endings" syn: accusative
     3: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without
        distortion of personal feelings or interpretation;
        "objective art"
     4: belonging to immediate experience of actual things or
        events; "concrete benefits"; "a concrete example"; "there
        is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
     n 1: the goal intended to be attained and which is believed to
          be attainable; "the sole object of her trip was to see
          her children" syn: aim, object, target
     2: the lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed
        syn: object glass
see also:
nonsubjective subjective accusative aim object target 
object glass 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

183 moby thesaurus words for "objective":
   achromatic lens, affectless, aim, ambition, anesthetized, animus,
   appetence, appetency, appetite, arctic, aspiration,
   astigmatic lens, autistic, bauble, bibelot, blunt, burning glass,
   butt, by-end, by-purpose, camera, catatonic, chill, chilly, choice,
   coated lens, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted,
   command, conation, conatus, concave lens, concavo-convex lens,
   condenser, convex lens, cool, corporeal, curio, decision, design,
   desire, destination, detached, determination, discretion,
   disinterested, dispassionate, disposition, drugged, dull, duty,
   emotionally dead, emotionless, end, end in view, equitable,
   evenhanded, external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic,
   eyeglass, eyepiece, fair, fancy, final cause, foreign, free choice,
   free will, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, function, game, gewgaw,
   gimcrack, glass, goal, gross, hand lens, heartless, hope, icy,
   immovable, impartial, impassible, impassive, impersonal,
   inclination, indifferent, inexcitable, insusceptible, intent,
   intention, judicious, just, lens, liking, lust, magnifier,
   magnifying glass, mark, material, meniscus, mind, neutral,
   nonemotional, nonsubjective, novelty, object, object glass,
   object in mind, objective prism, obtuse, ocular, open-handed,
   open-minded, out of touch, outer, outlying, outside, outward,
   passion, passionless, phenomenal, physical, pleasure, prey, prism,
   purpose, pursuit, quarry, quintain, reader, reading glass,
   reason for being, resolution, self-absorbed, sensible,
   sexual desire, soulless, spiritless, substantial, tangible, target,
   teleology, telephoto lens, toric lens, trinket, ultimate aim,
   unaffectionate, unbiased, unbigoted, uncolored, undazzled,
   unemotional, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
   uninfluenced, unjaundiced, unloving, unpassionate, unprejudiced,
   unprepossessed, unresponding, unresponsive, unsusceptible,
   unswayed, unsympathetic, untouchable, use, varifocal lens,
   velleity, volition, whatnot, will, will power, wish, zoom lens

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