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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

content, cognitive content, mental object go
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

thought, idea go
the content of cognition

conception, concept, construct go
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

quantity go
the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable

variable, variable quantity
a quantity that can assume any of a set of values

noun.cognition

11 Subcategories

argument go
a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
independent variable, experimental variable go
(statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
correlate, correlative go
either of two or more related or complementary variables
degree of freedom go
(statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
dependent variable go
(statistics) a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends on the independent variable
predictor variable go
a variable that can be used to predict the value of another variable (as in statistical regression)
infinitesimal go
(mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit
variant, random variable, variate, stochastic variable, chance variable go
a variable quantity that is random
scalar go
a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components
tensor go
a generalization of the concept of a vector
vector go
a variable quantity that can be resolved into components