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con•cept

Pronunciation: (kon'sept), [key]
—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.
Informal.to develop a concept of; conceive: Experts pooled their talents to concept the new car.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

Concepción

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