INCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inception mean? 

• INCEPTION (noun)
  The noun INCEPTION has 1 sense:

1. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

  Familiarity information: INCEPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

inception; origin; origination

Hypernyms ("inception" is a kind of...):

beginning (the event consisting of the start of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inception"):

germination (the origin of some development)

cause (events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something)

overture; preliminary; prelude (something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows)

emanation; procession; rise ((theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost)

 Context examples 

Progression of the cell from its inception to the end of its lifespan.

(Cell Aging, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a trend that will continue for a long time, at least a year or more, for you are at its very inception.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Since its inception in 1957, the NHIS has been a continuing nationwide sample survey in which data are collected through personal interviews with household members by U.S. Bureau of the Census interviewers.

(National Health Interview Survey, NCI Thesaurus)

Since its inception, it has had as its principal objective the development of internationally acceptable recommendations regarding (1) quantities and units of radiation and radioactivity; (2) procedures suitable for the measurement and application of these quantities in diagnostic radiology, radiation therapy, radiation biology, and industrial operations; and (3) physical data needed in the application of these procedures, the use of which tends to assure uniformity in reporting.

(International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, NCI Thesaurus)

For this gathering, the Zoological Hall which had been the scene of the inception of our task was found to be far too small, and it was only in the Queen's Hall in Regent Street that accommodation could be found.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of these the latter may have afforded a finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)