adj 1  :  of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers < reality>   2  :  perceptible to persons other than the affected individual <an symptom of disease>  <caused or subjective clinical improvement or both -Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc.>  - compare SUBJECTIVE2b   ob*jec*tive*ly adv 
, n 1  :  a lens or system of lenses that forms an image of an object  2  :  something toward which effort is directed .
 
   
 
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