intelligence

[In*tel·li*gence]

Intelligence is your ability to comprehend something, like calculus or why plants grow towards the sun.

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The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Noun
the operation of gathering information about an enemy

Noun
the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

Noun
new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

Noun
secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"

Noun
a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

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n.
The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

n.
The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

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Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

n.
Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

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Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

n.
An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.


Intelligence

In*tel"li*gence , n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.] 1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.
3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.
4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.
5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, n flowers of sentence.
6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. Milton.
The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.
Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired. Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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Usage Examples

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

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Other Usage Examples

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

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