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• apprehension — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin apprehension , apprehensio, from Latin apprehendere Date: 14th century 1. a. the act or power of perceiving or comprehending < a person of dull apprehension > b. the result of apprehending mentally… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• apprehension — Synonyms and related words: IQ, Pyrrhonism, abduction, agitation, alarm, all overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehensiveness, arrest, arrestation, arrestment,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• apprehension — The seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge. See arrest. Civil law. A physical or corporal act (corpus), on the part of one who intends to acquire possession of a thing, by which he brings himself into such a relation to the… …   Black's law dictionary

• apprehension — The seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge. See arrest. Civil law. A physical or corporal act (corpus), on the part of one who intends to acquire possession of a thing, by which he brings himself into such a relation to the… …   Black's law dictionary

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• Criminal Procedure (Hong Kong) — Every society has its own sets of moral standards and expectations. Different legal systems and laws develop and evolve based on these moral standards and expectations. Following the common law system introduced into Hong Kong when it became a… …   Wikipedia

• capacity — n. 1. Containing power, magnitude (in reference to contents), volume, dimensions, amplitude, extent of room or space. 2. Power (of apprehension), faculty, talent, genius, gift, turn, forte, parts, brains, aptness, aptitude, discernment, wit,… …   New dictionary of synonyms

• understanding — n. & adj. n. 1 a the ability to understand or think; intelligence. b the power of apprehension; the power of abstract thought. 2 an individual s perception or judgement of a situation etc. 3 an agreement; a thing agreed upon, esp. informally (had …   Useful english dictionary

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• Australian-Japanese Relations —    Although Australia was part of the British Empire, and Japan had signed a treaty of alliance with Britain in 1902, these two nations had a strained relationship in the period immediately before the World War I. Japan considered the Australian… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914