Scientific concepts: named ideas, quantities, elements and classifications used across disciplines rather than the disciplines, people or apparatus that study or produced them, including chemical elements, physical constants and formal classifications. It excludes theories, a concept is a building block and a theory is an explanatory claim built from concepts, and it excludes units of measurement, which have their own category.
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"a general notion, the immediate object of a thought," 1550s, from Medieval Latin conceptum
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