intellect meaning

• Noun: intellect  'intu`lekt
  1. Knowledge and intellectual ability
     "he has a keen intellect"
     - mind 
  2. The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
     - reason, understanding 
  3. A person who uses the mind creatively
     - intellectual

  Derived forms: intellects

  See also: intellectual, nonintellectual

  Type of: faculty, individual, intelligence, mental faculty, module, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

  Encyclopedia: Intellect

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  [Medicine]
  n
  1 : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
  2 : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought — in·tel·lec·tu·al adj — in·tel·lec·tu·al·ly adv
  
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  [Computer]
  <language> A query language written by Larry Harris in 1977, close to natural English.

Examples

1. everyone agreed that the man had a master intellect.
2. her intellect was not slow.
3. in short, he was as good as his intellect conceived.
4. in short, he was as good as his intellect conceived.
5. einstein was one of the greatest intellects of his time.