What is objective?

  • (noun): The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable).
    Synonyms: aim, object, target
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on objective:

Multi-objective Optimization - Visualization of The Pareto Frontier - Visualization in Bi-objective Problems: Tradeoff Curve
... In the case of bi-objective problems, informing the decision maker concerning the Pareto frontier is usually carried out by its visualization the ... tradeoff curve gives full information on objective values and on objective tradeoffs, which inform how improving one objective is related to deteriorating the second one while moving along the ... this information into account while specifying the preferred Pareto optimal objective point ...
Suit Combination - Deriving Optimum Suit Plays
... Crowhurst generally covers two alternative objective functions for every suit combination in the catalog ... This means that an objective function to be maximised is specified ... For suit play purposes, this objective function (or goal) is usually taken to be the likelihood of making a specified minimum number of tricks ...
Suit Combinations - Deriving Optimum Suit Plays
... Crowhurst generally covers two alternative objective functions for every suit combination in the catalog ... This means that an objective function to be maximised is specified ... For suit play purposes, this objective function (or goal) is usually taken to be the likelihood of making a specified minimum number of tricks ...
Theatre Pasta Theatre Awards - Objective
... To recognize outstanding accomplishments of theatre professionals whose work has made a significant impact in Theatre. ...

More definitions of "objective":

  • (adj): Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.
    Example: "Objective case"
    Synonyms: accusative
  • (adj): Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.
    Example: "An objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
    Synonyms: nonsubjective
  • (noun): The lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed.
    Synonyms: object glass
  • (adj): Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events.
    Example: "Concrete benefits"; "a concrete example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
  • (adj): Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation.
    Example: "Objective art"

Famous quotes containing the word objective:

    So much for Mrs. Hollis’ nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.
    Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945)

    So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay’s got that she hasn’t got. So I just write back to her and says, “Nothin’, honey. Only she’s got it here.”
    Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Sergeant Tracey, Objective Burma, to a buddy (1945)

    I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)