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Object may refer to:
General meanings
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- Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept
- Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place
- Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter
- Goal, an aim, target, or objective
- Object (grammar), a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Computing
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- 3D model, a representation of a physical object
- Object (computer science), a language mechanism for binding data with methods that operate on that data
- Object-orientation (disambiguation), in which concepts are represented as objects
- Object-oriented programming (OOP), in which an object is an instance of a class or array
- Object (IBM i), the fundamental unit of data storage in the IBM i operating system
- Object file, the output of a compiler or other translator program (also known as "object code")
- HTML object element
Mathematics
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- Object (mathematics), an abstract object arising in mathematics
- Group object, a generalization of a group built on more complicated structures than sets
- Object, an entity treated by mathematical category theory
Physics
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- Physical body or object, in physics, an identifiable collection of matter
- Planetary body or planetary object, any secondary body in the Solar system that has a planet-like geology
Other sciences
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- Astronomical object
- In object relations theory of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates
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