0 suitable or right for a particular situation: --
an apt comment/description
1 to be likely to do something or to often do something: --
2 having a natural ability or skill: --
We have some particularly apt students in the class this year.
3 abbreviation for apartment --
4 correct or right for a particular situation: --
5 likely: --
Each plaintiff if successful is apt to receive a judgment in the millions.
The recipe metaphor seems less apt for the selection process as embedded in operant behavior, however.
One can make the objection trivially apt by constructing an artificial concept that has all and only the extensions in question.
Of the five senses, vision in particular provided an apt model for cognition.
This is not an apt description of our condition.
They are apt to develop an increased awareness of community conditions as a result of this expansion in the scope of their everyday activities.
While the focus is national rather than comparative, they make apt references to relevant foreign data.
All the same, an uncomfortable tension is apt to appear between his religious beliefs and their rationality, and his other beliefs and their rationality.
