intelligence
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
intelligence/ɪnˈtelɪʤəns/
▶noun
- 1 the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
- 2 a person with this ability.
- 3 the gathering of information of military or political value.
■ information gathered in this way.
- 4 archaic news.
– derivatives
intelligential adjective (archaic).
intelligential adjective (archaic).
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. intelligentia, from intelligere ‘understand’, var. of intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.
'intelligence' also found in these Oxford entries:
able
- AI
- artificial intelligence
- brawn
- CIA
- COMINT
- control
- counter-intelligence
- crass
- DI
- Elint
- feeble-minded
- fifth-generation
- grey matter
- guile
- Humint
- idiot
- intellect
- intelligence quotient
- intelligencer
- intelligent
- intelligentsia
- intelligible
- IQ
- MI
- MI5
- MI6
- natural
- nous
- Prolog
- residency
- resident
- SETI
- Sigint
- simple
- simple-minded
- SIS
- smart
- soft-headed
- stupid
- subnormal
- thick
- Turing test
- unintelligent
- up
- vacancy
- vacant
- vacuous
- wanting
