Collins English-English Dictionary

objective [əb'ʤεktɪv]

1. 1. adj existing independently of perception or an individual's conceptions

   are there objective moral values?

2. 2. n [military] objective point a place or position towards which forces are directed

3. 3. adj undistorted by emotion or personal bias

4. 4. adj of or relating to actual and external phenomena as opposed to thoughts, feelings, etc

5. 5. adj [med] (of disease symptoms) perceptible to persons other than the individual affected

6. 6. adj [grammar] denoting a case of nouns and pronouns, esp in languages having only two cases, that is used to identify the direct object of a finite verb or preposition and for various other purposes. In English the objective case of pronouns is also used in many elliptical constructions (as in Poor me! Who, him?), as the subject of a gerund (as in It was me helping him), informally as a predicate complement (as in It's me), and in nonstandard use as part of a compound subject (as in John, Larry, and me went fishing) - See also accusative

7. 7. adj of, or relating to a goal or aim

8. 8. n null object glass

9. 9. n the object of one's endeavours; goal; aim

10. 10. n an actual phenomenon; reality

11. 11. n Abbreviation obj - Compare subjective

12. 12. n [grammar] the objective case

13. 13. n a word or speech element in the objective case

14. 14. n [optics] the lens or combination of lenses nearest to the object in an optical instrument

15. 15. n the lens or combination of lenses forming the image in a camera or projector