Object

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Etymology: The word object comes from the latin word objectum a noun form of objectus which in turn comes from objicere, which means to throw or put something before someone. Objicere comes from ob-, "in front of" (related to the Greek ἐπί epi-) and jacere, "throw".

As an English word, object has many senses. Some of these senses are subjects of Wikipedia articles:

• object (philosophy)
• In computer science, an object is a language supported mechanism for binding data tightly with methods that operate on that data.
• object (task)
• direct object and indirect object (grammar)
• categories in mathematics contain objects. For instance, the monster group is an object in the category of all groups.

See objecthood.