<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.</li><li>a thing, person, or matter to which thought or action is directed: an object of medical investigation.</li><li>the end toward which effort or action is directed; goal; purpose: Profit is the object of business.</li><li>a person or thing with reference to the impression made on the mind or the feeling or emotion elicited in an observer: an object of curiosity and pity.</li><li>anything that may be apprehended intellectually: objects of thought.</li><li>Optics: the thing of which a lens or mirror forms an image.</li><li>Grammar: a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that represents either the goal of the action of a verb or the goal of a preposition in a prepositional phrase.</li><li>Digital Technology: any item that can be individually selected or manipulated, as a picture, data file, or piece of text.</li><li>in object-oriented programming: a self-contained entity that consists of both data and operations to manipulate the data.</li><li>Metaphysics: something toward which a cognitive act is directed.</li></ul>