Object
Etymology: The word object comes from the latin word objectum a noun form of objectus which in turn comes from objicere, which means to throw or put something before someone. Objicere comes from ob-, "in front of" (related to the Greek ἐπί epi-) and jacere, "throw".
As an English word, object has many senses. Some of these senses are subjects of articles:
- Something that is within the grasp of the senses; something tangible; a thing.
- Object (philosophy)
- In computer science:
- An object is a language supported mechanism for binding data tightly with methods that operate on that data.
- A self-contained entity that consists of both data and procedures to manipulate the data.
- A number of object-oriented programming languages have a root superclass named
Objectorobject.
- In information processing, an object is a system which transmits information to an observer.
- Object (task)
- Object in grammar
- Direct object and indirect object (grammar)
- Categories in mathematics contain objects. For instance, the monster group is an object in the category of all groups. Manifolds can contain geometrical objects.
- raising an objection, an act where an attorney in a trial protests an act or evidence by the opposing side or their representation that violates the rules of the court.
See Objecthood.