Mastery vs Comprehension - What's the difference?
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The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
* Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
, chapter=5, title= Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
* (w), xxxii. 18
* , ix. 25.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
(label) Contest for superiority.
(label) A masterly operation; a feat.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(label) The philosopher's stone.
The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
* (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
thorough understanding
(logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
(computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
Mastery is a related term of comprehension.
As nouns the difference between mastery and comprehension
is that mastery is the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority while comprehension is .mastery
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en-noun)- If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- The voice of them that shout for mastery .
- Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
- O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
- (Holland)
- I will do a maistrie ere I go.
- He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
- The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.