understanding meaning
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[ʌndəˈstandɪŋ] [ˌʌndəɹˈstændɪŋ] [-ændɪŋ] 
US WUnderstanding
- Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.
- An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.
- NounPLunderstandingsPREunder-SUF-ing
- (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
- (countable) An informal contract, mutual agreement.
- I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
- (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
- The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
- He showed much understanding when he found out of my troublesome familial history.
- All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
- (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is subjective by its nature.
- Verb
- present participle of understand.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- present participle of understand.
- AdjectiveCOMmore understandingSUPmost understanding
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- To increase the understanding of what the mouth of a yidaki player is actually doing, Hollenberg organised to have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans done of him playing the instrument.
- A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!
- The class deepened my understanding of the subject.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Understanding the role of the HP0377 lipobox requires more investigation, as has been done for some Legionella lipoproteins [ 61 ].
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Thou favourest man with knowledge and teachest a human being understanding.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of understanding in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "understanding" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.