comprehension

See also: comprehensión and compréhension

English

Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) +‎ prehendō (“take”).

comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)

thorough understanding
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
(programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
(Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.

thorough understanding

Arabic: فَهْم‎ (ar) m (fahm)
Belarusian: разуме́нне n (razumjénnje)
Bulgarian: разби́ране (bg) n (razbírane), схващане (bg) n (shvaštane)
Catalan: comprensió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 理解 (zh) (lǐjiě), 瞭解 (zh), (simplified & variant traditional form) 了解 (zh) (liǎojiě)
Czech: porozumění n, pochopení n, chápání n
Dutch: begrijpen (nl)
Esperanto: kompreno
Finnish: ymmärrys (fi), käsityskyky (fi)
French: compréhension (fr) f, entendement (fr) m
German: Verständnis (de) n, Verstehen n
Greek:
Ancient Greek: κατάληψις f (katálēpsis)
Hebrew: הֲבָנָה‎ (he) f (havaná)
Ido: kompreno (io)
Italian: comprensione (it) f
Japanese: 理解 (ja) (りかい, rikai), 了解 (ja) (りょうかい, ryōkai)
Korean: 이해 (ko) (ihae), 리해 (ko) (rihae) (North Korea) (理解 (ko)), 요해 (ko) (yohae), 료해 (ko) (ryohae) (North Korea) (了解 (ko))

Macedonian: разбирање n (razbiranje)
Maori: aroā, aroātanga
Norwegian: forståelse (no) m
Persian: فهم‎ (fa) (fahm)
Polish: zrozumienie (pl) n, pojmowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: compreensão (pt) f
Romanian: comprehensiune (ro) f
Russian: понима́ние (ru) n (ponimánije), поня́тие (ru) n (ponjátije), осмысле́ние (ru) n (osmyslénije), разуме́ние (ru) n (razuménije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: разумевање n
Roman: razumevanje (sh) n
Slovak: pochopenie n, porozumenie n
Slovene: razumevanje n
Spanish: comprensión (es) f, entendimiento (es) m
Swedish: förståelse (sv) c
Tagalog: katalusan, talos (tl)
Tajik: фаҳм (tg) (fahm)
Turkish: anlayış (tr)
Ukrainian: розумі́ння (uk) n (rozumínnja), зрозумі́ння n (zrozumínnja)