content
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛnt/
The English word “content” has 18 meanings listed here.
adjective
noun
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- Acquiescence without examination.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- A member who votes in assent.
- That which is contained.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- One or more creative works.
- The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- The amount of material contained.
- Capacity for containing.
- The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
interjection
verb
- To give contentment or satisfaction to; to satisfy; to make happy.
- To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
Etymology
From Middle English contenten (“to satisfy”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of continēre (“to contain”).
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