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The word objective means any of several things:- It has several dictionary definitions, such as goal or fair. See project objective, design objective, and Wiktionary:Objective .
- In philosophy, it can refer to the nature of an object or reality. See object (philsophy) , Objectivism, objectivity, objective truth.
- In grammar, it can refer to nouns that are the object of a sentence. See object (grammar).
- It can also refer to the lens or lens system in a microscope or camera that receives light and forms an image. See objective lens and photographic lensA photographic lens (or more correctly, objective is an integrated system comprising one or more simple optical lens elements, used for a camera or microscope. It may be fixed to the camera body, or interchangeable. There will usually be an aperture selec.
- Objective-CObjective-C often referred to as ObjC and more seldom as Objective C or Obj-C is an object oriented programming language implemented as an extension to C. It is used primarily on Mac OS X and GNUstep, two environments based on the OpenStep standard, and i, a programming language.
The opposite of objective is subjectiveThe word subjective has several denotations: It has several dictionary definitions: see Wiktionary:Subjective. In philosophy, it can refer to various forms of subjectivism. In grammar, it refers to the nominative case. In statistics, it refers to personal.
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