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1. The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
   "the sole objective of her trip was to see her children";
   - aim, object, target
    
2. The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
   - objective lens, object lens, object glass

1. Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena
   "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence";
   - nonsubjective
    
2. Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation
   "objective art"
    
3. Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events
   "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
    
4. (grammar) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
   "objective case";
   - accusative

Derived forms: objectives

See also: clinical, concrete, existent, impersonal, neutral, real, verifiable

Type of: end, goal, lens, lens system, lense [non-standard]

Antonym: subjective

Part of: compound microscope, optical telescope

Encyclopedia: Objective, Burma!