concrete
/ˈkɒnkɹiːt/
Real, actual, tangible; Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories; Particular, specific, rather than general; Made of concrete
- comparative
- concreter
- superlative
- concretest
Meanings
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Real, actual, tangible
Do you have a concrete example?
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Our plans are not yet concrete.
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Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories
- 3
Particular, specific, rather than general
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Made of concrete (building material)
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Made up of separate parts; composite
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Not liquid or fluid; solid
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Real, actual, tangible.; Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of setsrare
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Real, actual, tangible.; Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over Xrare