objective

IPA: ʌbdʒˈɛktɪv

A material object that physically exists.
A goal that is striven for.
(grammar) The objective case.
(grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.

Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
(grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
(linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)

Examples of "objective" in Sentences

Our main objective is not to prevent multinationals from getting minerals.
When you submit a novel proposal to an agent or publisher, your main objective is to show that your novel will sell.
Yet he insisted, on the contrary, that values are objective, even going so far as to label his position ˜objective pluralism™.
The main objective is for the fellow to view numerous biopsy specimens daily and to see multiple normal biopsies with the pathologists.
The main objective is for the fellow to gain an appreciation of the dynamic nature of the studies that is lost on review of the static images.
We must protect our struggle against forces which sound correct but whose objective is entirely to destroy the cause, the ·objective, of our revolutionary struggle ".
But writer Zantoshi Kanazawa makes many other bizarre allegations, using the term "objective attractiveness" frequently without explanation of how a subjective characterization could possibly be
The outer or objective process, however, shows in animals strongly controlled by instinct, as insects for instance, a preponderance of the ganglion -- _i. e., subjective_ nervous system over the _objective_ or cerebral system.
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