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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Comprehensive \Com`pre*hen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. compr['e]hensif.] 1. Including much comprising many things having a wide scope or a full view. A very comprehensive definition. --Bentley. Large and comprehensive idea. --Channing. 2. Having the power to comprehend or understand many things ``His comprehensive head.'' --Pope. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups. Note: The term is applied chiefly to early fossil groups which have a combination of structures that appear in more fully developed or specialized forms in later groups. Synthetic, as used by Agassiz, is nearly synonymous. Syn: Extensive; wide; large full; compendious. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: comprehensive adj 1: including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education" [ant: {noncomprehensive}] 2: broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs" 3: being the most comprehensive of its class; "an unabridged dictionary" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: COMPREHENSIVE An early system on {MIT}'s {Whirlwind}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
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