0 present participle of contemplate
1 to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way:
These were important considerations when contemplating the generation of musical/sound outcomes.
Another was contemplating leaving her employment for this reason.
Such audiences are not sitting and concentrating, contemplating the performance of a piece from a well-known repertoire or the concept of an avant-garde innovation.
The reason is that seeing is not contemplating an internal representation, but doing something of a visual nature with the information available to the brain.
Another 10 were housed but dissatisfied with their housing and contemplating abandonment.
In theory, the person contemplating death is powerless to affect the relative entitlement of his heirs.
Contemplating total artificial heart inactivation in cases of futility.
The tool may be used, for instance, where a hospital is contemplating the introduction of new health technology.
