objective has definitions from the fields of physics,optics,grammar
1
[ noun ] the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

Synonyms

aim object target

Examples

"the sole object of her trip was to see her children"

Used in print

(Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)

You must know before you start what the needs and objectives of your organization are ; you must have a list of requirements on where , how many , and what type sites are needed .

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken_into_account .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

Such measures are essential to its job of presenting business and Government with the facts required to meet the objective of expanding business and improving the operation of the economy .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

This may be of overriding importance in considering military objectives .

Related terms

goal thing business point target

2
[ adjective ] undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

Synonyms

nonsubjective

Examples

"an objective appraisal" "objective evidence"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Yet it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and known .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

In_fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south , because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down .

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest , but it was an objective pain , in_no_way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; it was like the bandaged wound on the back of his head which occasionally throbbed ; it was merely another part of his weakness .

3
[ adjective ] emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation

Examples

"objective art"

Related terms

representational

4
[ adjective ] belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

Examples

"concrete benefits" "a concrete example" "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"

Related terms

concrete

5
[ adjective ] (grammar) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

Synonyms

accusative

Examples

"objective case" "accusative endings"

Related terms

grammar accusative accusative

6
[ noun ] (physics,optics) the lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed

Synonyms

object_glass

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