Object: nm (word coming from the medieval Latin objectum, from objicere “to throw in front”, “to place in front”).
The word object has many meanings:
I) Concrete meaning:
1. Anything (including animate beings) that affects the senses, especially sight.
The perception of objects.
Quotation from the French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc (Count of) Buffon (1707-1788): Natural history embraces all the objects presented to us by the universe” (Buffon).
2. More common: Solid thing...
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