/kon"sept/ , n.
1. a general notion or idea; conception.
2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.
3. a directly conceived or intuited object of thought.
v.t.
4. Informal. to develop a concept of; conceive: Experts pooled their talents to concept the new car.
[ 1550-60; conceptum something conceived, orig. neut. of conceptus (ptp. of concipere ), equiv. to con- CON- + cep- (var. s. of -cipere, comb. form of capere to seize) + -tus ptp. ending ]