Comprehension

Comprehension may refer to:

  • In general usage, and more specifically in reference to education and psychology, it has roughly the same meaning as understanding.
  • Reading comprehension, a measurement of the understanding of a passage of text
  • Comprehension (logic), the totality of intensions, that is, properties or qualities, that an object possesses
    • Comprehension (or comprehensiveness), in Anglicanism, the theological inclusiveness and liturgical breadth thought to be integral to the definition of the tradition
    • List comprehension, an adaptation of mathematical set notation to represent infinite lists in computer science.