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Definition: Objective |
ObjectiveAdjective1. Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence". 2. (grammar) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings". 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". Noun1. The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her children". 2. The lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "objective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
Etymology: Objective \Ob*jec"tive\, adjective. [Compare to French objectif.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The lens or combination of lenses which receives light rays from an object and refracts them to form an image in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument, such as a telescope. Also called object glass. (references) |
Education | Are relatively specific statements of learning outcomes expressed frequently, but not always, in terms of the student. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The fund's investment strategy category as stated in the prospectus. There are more than 20 standardised categories. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Lens, in an optical instrument, that normally faces the object. More often applied to the lenses of telescopes and microscopes than cameras. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)describes that which gives a true, verifiable representation of the object by minimizing the human factors(for instance, preference, habit, inclination); b)describes the technique which, either by means of sensory or instrumental methods, minimizes self-induced errors. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The compound microscope consists fundamentally of an -and an eyepiece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | The physical object of the action taken, e.g., a definite tactical feature, the seizure and/or holding of which is essential to the commander's plan. See also target. (references) |
Mining | The lens (or lenses) that gives an image of an object in the focal plane of a microscope or telescope eyepiece. Syn:objective lens;object glass. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This is about the optical device. For other uses, see Lens (disambiguation).
A lens is a device for either concentrating or diverging light, usually formed from a piece of shaped glass. Analogous devices used with other types of electromagnetic radiation are also called lenses: for instance, a microwave lens can be made from paraffin wax.
In its usual form, a lens consists of a slab of glass or other optically transparent material (such as perspex) with two shaped surfaces of a particular curvature. It is the refractive index of the lens material and the curvature of the two surfaces that give a particular lens its particular properties. A lens works by refracting (bending) the light that passes through it, in a similar manner to a prism.
Lens construction
The most common type of lenses are spherical lenses, which are formed from surfaces that have spherical curvature, that is, the front and back surfaces of the lens can be imagined to be part of the surface of two spheres of given radii, R1 and R2, which are called the radius of curvature of each surface. The sign of R1 gives the shape of the front surface of the lens: if R1 is positive, the surface is convex (bulging outwards from the lens). If R1 is negative, the front surface is concave (bulging into the lens). If R1 is infinite, the surface is flat, or has zero curvature, and is said to be plane. The same is true for the back surface of the lens, except that the sign conversion is reversed: if R2 is positive, it is concave, and if R2 is negative,the back surface is convex. The line joining the centres of the spheres making up the lens surfaces is called the axis of the lens; in almost all cases the lens axis passes through the physical centre of the lens.
Lens are classified by the curvature of these two surfaces. A lens is biconvex if both surfaces are convex, likewise, a lens with two concave surfaces is biconcave. If one of the surfaces is flat, the lens is termed plano-convex or plano-concave depending on the curvature of the other surface. A lens with one convex and one concave side is termed convex-concave, and in this case if both curvatures are equal it is a meniscus lens.
If the lens is biconvex or plano-convex, a collimated or parallel beam of light passing along the lens axis and through the lens will be converged (or focused) to a spot on the axis, at a certain distance behind the lens (known as the focal length). In this case, the lens is called a positive or converging lens.
If the lens is biconcave or plano-concave, a collimated beam of light passing through the lens is diverged (spread); the lens is thus called a negative or diverging lens. The beam after passing through the lens appears to be emanating from a particular point on the axis in front of the lens; the distance from this point to the lens is also known as the focal length, although it is negative with respect to the focal length of a converging lens.
If the lens is convex-concave, whether it is converging or diverging depends on the relative curvatures of the two surfaces. If the curvatures are equal (a meniscus lens), then the beam is neither converged or diverged.
The value of the focal length f for a particular lens can be calculated from the lensmaker's equation:
where n is the refractive index of the lens material and d is the distance along the lens axis between the two surfaces (known as the thickness of the lens). If d is small compared to R1 and R2, then the thin lens assumption can be made, and f can be estimated as:
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The focal length f is positive for converging lenses, negative for diverging lenses, and infinite for meniscus lenses. The value 1/f is known as the power of the lens, and so meniscus lenses are said to have zero power. Lens power is measured in dioptres, which have units of inverse meters (m-1).
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Lenses are also reciprocal; i.e. they have the same focal length when light travels from the front to the back as when light goes from the back to the front (although other properties of the lens, such as the aberration [see below] are not necessarily the same in both directions).
Imaging properties
As mentioned above, a positive or converging lens will focus a collimated beam travelling along the lens axis to a spot (known as the focal point) at a distance f from the lens. Conversely, a point source of light placed at the focal point will be converted into a collimated beam by the lens. These two cases are examples of image formation in lenses. In the former case, an object at an infinite distance (as represented by a collimated beam of light) is focused to an image at the focal point of the lens. In the later, an object at the focal length distance from the lens is imaged at infinity.
If the distances from the object to the lens and from the lens to the image are S1 and S2 respectively, for a lens of negligible thickness they are found by the thin lens formula:
What this means is that, if an object is placed at a distance S1 along the axis in front of a positive lens of focal length f, a screen placed at a distance S2 behind the lens will have an image of the object projected onto it, as long as S1 > f. This is the principle behind photography. The image in this case is known as a real image.
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Note that if S1 < f, S2 becomes negative, and the image is apparently positioned in front of the lens. Although this kind of image, known as a virtual image, cannot be projected on a screen, an observer looking through the lens will see the image in its apparent calculated position.
The magnification of the lens is given by:
where M is the magnification factor; if |M|>1, the image is larger than the object. Notice the sign convention here shows that, if M is negative, as it is for real images, the image is upside-down with respect to the object. For virtual images, M is positive and the image is upright.
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In the special case that S1=∞, we have S2=f and M=-f/∞=0. This corresponds to a collimated beam being focused to a single spot at the focal point. The size of the image in this case is not actually zero, since diffraction effects place a lower limit on the size of the image (see Rayleigh criterion).
The formulas above may also be used for negative (diverging) lens by using a negative focal length (f), but for these lenses only virtual images can be formed.
Aberrations
Lenses do not form perfect images, and there is always some degree of distortion or aberration introduced by the lens which causes the image to be an imperfect replica of the object. Careful design of the lens system for a particular application ensures that the aberration is minimised.
There are several different types of aberration. Spherical aberration is caused because spherical surfaces are not the ideal shape with which to make a lens, but they are by far the simplest shape to which glass can be ground and polished and so are often used. Spherical aberration causes beams parallel to but away from the lens axis to be focused in a slightly different place than beams close to the axis. This manifests itself as a blurring of the image. Lenses in which closer-to-ideal, non-spherical surfaces are used are called aspheric lenses, which are complex to make and often extrememly expensive. Spherical aberration can be minimised by careful choice of the curvature of the surfaces for a particular application: for instance, a plano-convex lens which is used to focus a collimated beam produces a sharper focal spot when used with the convex side towards the beam.
Chromatic aberration is caused by the dispersion of the lens material, the variation of its refractive index n with the wavelength of light. Since from the formulae above f is dependent on n, if follows that different wavelengths of light will be focused to different positions. Chromatic aberration of a lens is seen as fringes of color around the image. It can be minimised by using an achromatic doublet (or achromat) in which two materials with differing dispersion are bonded together to form a single lens. This reduces the amount of chromatic aberration over a certain range of wavelengths, though it does not produce perfect correction. The use of achromats was an important step in the developement of the optical microscope.
Other kinds of aberration include coma, field curvature, barrel and pincushion distortion, and astigmatism.
Multiple lenses
Lenses may be combined to form more complex optical systems. The simplest case is when lenses are placed in contact: if the lenses of focal lengths f1 and f2 are "thin", the combined focal length F of the lenses can be calculated from:
Since 1/f is the power of a lens, it can be seen that the powers of thin lenses in contact are additive.
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Uses of lenses
One important use of lenses is as a prosthetic for the correction of visual impairments such as myopia and farsightedness. See corrective lens, contact lens, eyeglasses.
Another use is in imaging systems such as telescopes, microscopes, and cameras.
See also
- Aberration in optical systems
- Photographic lens
- F-number
- Numerical aperture
- Telescope
- Microscope
- Fresnel lens.
- Lens coatings
- Gradient index lens
- History of lensmaking
- Zoom lens
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lens."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
As used in philosophy, in general, an object is something that can have properties and relations. Hence a particular object is, basically, either a particular material body or a particular mind--or, on a neutral monist view, a particular that can be viewed under both physical and mental aspects.Objects are often treated as types of particulars, but occasionally, philosophers see fit to speak of abstract objects--Platonic forms would be an example.
Much, much more at objecthood
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Object (philosophy)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word objective can mean many things:
The opposite of objective is subjective.
- It has several dictionary definitions, such as goal or fair. See Wiktionary:Objective.
- In philosophy, it can refer to the nature of an object or reality. See Objectivism, Objectivity, Objective truth.
- In grammar, it can refer to nouns that are the object of a sentence. See object (grammar).
- It can also refer to the lens or lens system in a microscope or camera that receives light and forms an image. See objective lens and photographic lens.
- Objective-C, a programming language.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Objective."
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The word objectivity admits at least two related meaning in philosophy.
To say that an entity exists objectively means that its existence and nature do not depend on anyone's awareness of it. The table at which I am sitting exists "objectively" because it would still exist and it would still be what it is even if no one were aware of it.
Objectivity as an epistemic virtue is a person's recognition that things exist independently of anyone's awareness of them; they are not just in our heads and therefore just what we make them. Such objectivity is generally regarded as essential to science, to philosophy, and to justice. (See scientific method.) When a lawyer assessing the fitness of a potential juror asks "Can you be objective in judging the facts of this case?", it is this sense of the word objectivity that is being used.
"Objectivity" should not be confused with Objectivism.
Further Reading
- Popper, Karl. R. Objective Knowlege: An Evolutionary Approach, Oxford University Press, 1972, trade paperback, 395 pages, ISBN 0198750242, hardcover is out of print and rather expensive.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Objectivity."
Synonyms: ObjectiveSynonyms: accusative (adj), nonsubjective (adj), aim (n), object (n), object glass (n), target (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: subjective (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evidence | Signature, seal; (identification); exhibit, material evidence, objective evidence. |
Extrinsicality | Adjective: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous; (foreign); modal, ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous. |
MATERIALITY | Objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic. |
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Screenplays | I'm just saying, this seems like an unnecessary risk considering our objective, sir. (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) Our objective is to win the war. (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Burma! Objective (1945) | |
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 | The patient is a 53 year old woman with metastatic melanoma to multiple subcutaneous sites and retroperitoneum. She was treated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) transduced with the gene for tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Pretreatment biopsy shows multiple live melanoma cells with little lymphoid infiltrate. Following treatment with TNF gene modified TILs plus interleukin-2, a biopsy of another lesion showed massive coagulative necrosis of the tumor with no viable tumor seen. This is a typical picture seen in experimental animals treated with tumor necrosis factor. This patient has had a substantial objective response that is currently ongoing at nine months following initiation of treatment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gordon Strong automobile objective, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Md. Perspective sketch with cover sheet] / Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. A 37 mm. gun crew, part of a U.S. Army tank force in New Guinea, fires at an objective at Buna Mission. Empty shells, heaped hurriedly in the foreground, indicate intensity of fi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Our objective is to complete this mission and return safely!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Author Unknown | Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an objective who had in no measure attained it. |
Bernard Iddings Bell | To be artist and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. |
Peter F. Drucker | Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. |
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Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In Sweatt v. Painter, supra, in finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part on "those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school." (reference) |
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Health | The time has come to evaluate the objective evidence for these new surgical therapies. (references) | |
Restoration of airway competence is the objective in the treatment of severe sleep apnea. (references) | ||
Cost-effectiveness and objective measures of quality of life should be included in this analysis. (references) | ||
Business | Their objective is to charge network usage to upcoming service providers. (references) | |
Basically, the Ministry’s main objective should be promoting Uzbek exports. (references) | ||
The second main objective is an attempt to make Greece a year-round destination. (references) | ||
Children | Nicaragua | In the past 2 years, this organization has implemented a program called Prodinic, with the objective of strengthening the country's disabled associations by assisting 20 different groups in Managua, Masaya, Leon, Juigalpa, and Esteli. (references) |
Iceland | In an effort to improve the rate of prosecution of child sexual abuse and lessen the trauma to the child, the Government established the Children's Assessment Center in 1998. The objective of the center is to create a safe and secure environment where child victims feel more comfortable talking about what happened to them and are not subjected to multiple interviews. (references) | |
Mauritius | Education is free and mandatory until the age of 12; attendance at the primary level is 100 percent, but only 60 percent of children attend school at the secondary level (which includes the ages from 12 to 19). In May the Government announced an education reform plan that would increase mandatory education to the age of 16 by 2003. The plan would eliminate the ranking of primary students based on their scores in a primary education certificate exam with the objective of making more students eligible to attend secondary school. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kenya | Citizen TV and Citizen Radio, which broadcast generally objective news programs, ceased operations during the year. (references) |
Yugoslavia | During the year, the station's coverage generally was objective, with some biases in favor of certain political parties. (references) | |
India | The National Integration Council is a nonstatutory body with an objective of maintaining social tranquility and communal harmony. (references) | |
Economic History | Jamaica | USAID's primary objective is promoting sustainable economic growth. (references) |
Czech Republic | Fundamental to this objective is Czech membership in the European Union. (references) | |
Chile | Maintaining a moderate inflation level is a foremost Central Bank objective. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | The alleged objective of the roundups is to fight delinquency. (references) |
Peru | Most human rights NGO's are independent and generally objective. (references) | |
Moldova | The Court's decisions generally have been regarded as fair and objective. (references) | |
Minorities | Kazakhstan | Many media outlets (both official and independent), including some of the most widely distributed, have presented as objective news allegations that nontraditional religious groups present a threat to national security and social cohesion. (references) |
Uganda | On October 19, the heads of various religious denominations in the country including the Anglican, the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council endorsed the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda Constitution, whose objective is to strengthen inter-religious dialog among the main religious groups and to advocate social topics of concern to all groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Employment of UAE citizens, known as "Emiratization," is a stated national objective. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The project objective is to implement measures for TB/HIV/AIDS epidemic control in Ukraine. (references) |
Mauritius | The Association's main objective is to promote trade and investment among member countries. (references) | |
Brazil | The Program allows for imports of goods for a pre-determined time frame and a clear objective. (references) | |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | The committee's objective is to define programs and actions to reduce social inequalities and to make recommendations on combating violence against women. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | The Government also has not made a public statement on the eradication of such labor or established a national program with that objective. (references) |
Gambia | Upon application by an employer to a court, the court may prohibit industrial action that is ruled to be in pursuit of a political objective. (references) | |
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Chuck Hagel | Well, that objective is noble and right, and we should always as this country has always stood for human dignity and human rights. And that is the foundation of who we are as a people and is the foundation of our foreign policy. |
Geoffrey Hoon | That, obviously, is our ultimate aim, it's our ultimate military objective, and I remain absolutely confident that those weapons of mass destruction will be discovered. |
John Edward | I could. But usually it would happen in a different way. See, when you're working with somebody that you don't know, you can be completely objective. And you can just kind of say, you know, Here you go, this is what I'm seeing, hearing, and feeling. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | All of the policies of the Federal Government must be geared to the objective of sustained full production and full employment--to raise consumer purchasing power and to encourage business investment. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | This is the objective of our policy in this important area. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Our fourth objective is prosperity, to keep our economy moving ahead, moving ahead steadily and safely. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | My first objective is to have sound economic growth without inflation. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | One very immediate and pressing objective that is uppermost on our minds and those of the American people is the release of our hostages in Iran. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As soon as we accomplished one objective, we were quickly on to the next. |
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| "Objective" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.07% of the time. "Objective" is used about 3,516 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.07% | 2,183 | 4,015 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 37.93% | 1,334 | 5,953 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,516 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Denmark | Objective A/S | USA | Objective Systems Integrators, Inc. |
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Expressions using "objective": amphibious objective area ♦ fire management objective ♦ fundamental objective ♦ given objective ♦ initial objective ♦ intermediate objective ♦ movement to the objective area ♦ objective account ♦ objective area ♦ objective attitude ♦ objective C ♦ objective CAML ♦ objective case ♦ objective criticism ♦ objective evidence ♦ objective form ♦ objective genitive ♦ objective lens ♦ objective line ♦ objective PASCAL ♦ objective plane ♦ objective point ♦ objective value ♦ standardization objective ♦ strategic planning objective ♦ ultimate objective. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "objective": objective-eyepiece, objective-row, objective-setting, objective-test. | |
Ending with "objective": multiple-objective, non-objective. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "objective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | objektiv (aim, impersonal, Mark, object glass, target), objekt (article, object, target, thing), synim (aim, aspiration, contemplation, design, goal, intent, intention, object, purpose, view), real (absolute, actual, concrete, effective, flesh and blood, hard, historic, historical, real, realistic, substantial, true, veritable), rasë kallëzore (objective case), qëllim (aim, ambition, aspiration, cause, design, designation, end, goal, idea, intent, intention, Mark, mission, notion, object, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, term, thought, view), pikësynim (purpose), me qëllim (advisedly, by design, deliberately, designedly, expressly, hard, intentional, intently, knowingly, meaningly, on purpose, purposefully, purposely, with an eye to, wittingly), kallëzor, i vlefshëm (effectual, valid, worth), i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, perfect, positive, practical, proper, pucka, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual). (various references) | |
Arabic | موضوعي (documentary, dry, impartial, literal, nonpartisan, objectivist, outer, thematic, topical), محس, متجرد, مدرك بالحواس (phenomenal, sensate), هدفي, هدف (aim, butt, clout, end, goal, ideal, intent, intention, mark, object, plan, purpose, study, target, tendency, view), غرض (aim, destination, end, intent, point, prejudice, purpose, study, tendency), حالة المفعولية أو المجرورية, عدسة الشيئية (object glass), ذو علاقة بالمفعول به. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цел (aim, ambition, consummation, designation, destination, effect, end, goal, intent, intention, mission, object, point, purport, purpose, scope, target, turn), косвен падеж, конкретен (actual, concrete, material, tangible), винителен падеж (accusative), отнасящ се до допълнението, обективен (clinical, impersonal, material, outer), обектив (eye, lens, object glass), обект (entity, object, project), безпристрастен (clinical, detached, dispassionate, equitable, even, even handed, fair, immovable, impartial, impersonal, indifferent, judicial, non-partisan, unbiased, unprejudiced), предметен (material), прицелен, действителен (actual, concrete, effective, factual, operative, real, sound, true, valid, virtual). (various references) | |
Chinese | 目的 (aim, goal, purpose, target), 目標 (goal, target), 旨趣 , 受 , 客观 (impersonal). (various references) | |
Czech | objektivní (detached, disinterested, impartial, open minded, unbiased, unbiassed), objektiv (lens), vnìjší (exterior, extern, external, extraneous, extrinsic, male, outer, outside, outward, over), terè (butt, target), předmìtný, cíl (aim, goal, object, purpose, target), úkol (assignment, job, labor, labour, mission, part, stint, target, task, undertaking). (various references) | |
Danish | objektiv/objektglas, objektiv (give an image of the object observed, objective containing one or more lenses which, when directed optical systems towards an object), maal (dimensions, measurements), målsætning, mål (aim, goal, measure, measurement, purpose, target), formål (aim, goal, purpose, target). (various references) | |
Dutch | objectief (give an image of the object observed, objective containing one or more lenses which, when directed optical systems towards an object). (various references) | |
Finnish | objektiivinen. (various references) | |
French | objectif (object, object glass). (various references) | |
German | Objektiv (detached, impartial, lens, objectively, unprejudiced), sachlich (businesslike, factual, functional, material, matter of fact, neuter, no-nonsense, objectively, practical, relevant, soberingly). (various references) | |
Greek | αντικειμενικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משימ" (assignment, duty, intention, job, mission, task, undertaking), מ"ותי (essential, intrinsic, intrinsical), מטר" (aim, cause, goal, intent, intention, object, purpose, target), יע" (aim, destination, end, goal, mean, mission, purpose, target), תכליתי (down to earth, efficacious, intentional, purposeful, teleological), עוב"תי (factual, matter of fact), ע י י (actual, businesslike, forthright, matter of course, pertinent, practical, relevant), חיו י (essential, indispensable, necessary, needful, vital), אוביקטיבי (impartial). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tárgyi (material), objektív (detached, object glass), célpont (blank, bourn, Bourne, butt, mark, target, viewing-point), cél (aim, cock-shot, consummation, destination, goal, intent, Mark, object, purport, purpose, target). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tujuan (destination, direction, tenor), tidak berat sebelah, meninjau. (various references) | |
Italian | obiettivo (lens, target, unbiased), oggettivo (lems). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 目的 (aim, goal, intention, purpose), 目的 (aim, goal, intention, purpose), 目星 , 目標 (mark, target), 狙い所 (target), 方針 (plan, policy), 方針 (plan, policy), 先 (destination, end, former, head, late, nozzle, old, point, precedence, previous, prior, priority, remainder, sequel, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip), 客観 , 他覚的 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たかくてき (diversified, many-sided, multilateral), きゃっか", ねらいど"ろ (target), さき (destination, end, following, former, head, nozzle, point, previous, prior, remainder, sequel, small peninsula, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip, undermentioned), ほうし" (absentmindedness, blister, gun barrel, herpes, honorific reference to another's kind intentions, honorific reference to another's letter, peace of mind, plan, policy, tidings of peach blossoms), めぼし, もくひょう (mark, target), もくてき (aim, goal, intention, purpose). (various references) | |
Korean | 객관. (various references) | |
Manx | er cheu mooie, dean (dean, goal, target), cassagh (footed, pedal, spiral). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | objectiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | objectivo (goal, target). (various references) | |
Romanian | obiectiv (aim, fair, impartial, impartially, object, object glass, objectively, outer, unbiassed, unprejudiced), scop (aim, butt, consummation, design, designation, effect, end, goal, intent, intention, Mark, meaning, mission, object, order, purpose, scope, serve, target, turn, use), cazul obiectiv, ţintã (aim, blaze, butt, clout, design, end, goal, hobnail, ideal, nail, object, peg, pin, purport, purpose, pursuit, tack, target, weltnail, whither), ţel (aim, butt, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mission, object, purpose). (various references) | |
Russian | стремление (ambition, aspiration, craving, intention [b], longing, pursuit, rush, tendency), цель объективный, цель (aim, butt, effect, final cause, goal, intent, intention, object, purpose, target), косвенный (circumstantial, indirect, oblique), вещественный (hylic, material, substantial), объективный (outer, unbiased, unbiassed), объектив (lens, object glass, object-glass), объект (object, operand, target of), задача (problem, problem that faces us, sums, task, task of), беспристрастный (above the battle, candid, detached, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, even-handed, impartial, neutral, non-partisan, unbiased, unprejudiced), предметный, действительный (actual, effective, factual, operative, real, valid, virtual). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | objektivan (rael, unbiased), stvaran (actual, real, substantial, unfeigned, unimaginative, veritable), predmetni padež, predmetni (object, topic), nepristrasan (dispassionate, even handed, evenhanded, neutral, nonpartisan, non-partisan, unbiased, unprejudiced), nepristarasan (impartial). (various references) | |
Spanish | objetivo (aim, bomb site, detached, end, factual, goal, lems, lens, realistic, target). (various references) | |
Swedish | saklig (factual, hardheaded, literal, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, pertinent, substantial, technical, unbiased), avsikt (aim, counsel, design, end, idea, intent, intention, object, purpose). (various references) | |
Thai | เป้าหมาย (end), ไม่ลำเอียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | objektif (clinical, even handed, object glass, practical), nesne (article, object, objective case), mercek (bulls eye, condenser, condensing lens, eye lense, eyepiece, glass, lens, object lens), ismin -i hali (accusative, accusative case, objective case), hedef (aim, blank, bourn, Bourne, butt, clout, cock-shy, destination, goal, home, intention, land of promise, Mark, object, promised land, purpose, rover, target, terminus), erek (aim, drift, end, goal, ideal, intention, land of promise, promised land, terminus), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, sense, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will). (various references) | |
Turkmen | obяektiw (r) (unbiased). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | речовий, реально існуючий, об'"ктивний (non-egoistical, outer), об'"ктив (object glass, object lens), неупереджений (candid, impersonal, open, open minded, uninfluenced, unprejudiced), непрямий відмінок, мета (aim, ambition, design, effect, goal, intention, object, point, purport, purpose, use), завдання (assignment, errand, job, lesson, problem, task), безсторонній (candid, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, impartial, neutral, non-partisan, unconcerned), предметний (presentive), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus), дійсний (absolute, active, actual, authentic, available, indicative, operative, real, valid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mục tiêu (aim, goal, proposition). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwrthrychol (accusative). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proposita, proposito, propositum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "objective": objectively, objectiveness, objectivenesses, objectives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "objective": nonobjective. ( | |
