0 past simple and past participle of conceive --
1 to imagine something: --
2 to invent a plan or an idea: --
The exhibition was conceived by the museum's director.
He conceived the plot for this film while he was still a student.
3 to become pregnant, or to cause a baby to begin to form: --
Besides, the dynamic exploitation of this knowledge is made possible by means of specially conceived deduction mechanisms.
In fact, the gates have been conceived in terms of squares and golden-section rectangles in a variety of combinations.
It completely changed the way music was conceived and composed.
It stresses the way in which they conceived of history and shows how and why they emphasized the irrelevance, even the danger, of classical comparisons.
Society is conceived as a huge and intricate clockwork that functions automatically and predictably once it has been set in motion.
It is conceived as an investigation of ways in which par ticipants mentally model varieties of communicative behaviors.
She spells out that these objects should be conceived of neither as instruments nor commodities.
As a consequence, the training platform is conceived both as a tool for professionals and for individual patient training.