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Plural of intelligence

regular plural

The plural of intelligence is intelligences.

Forms of intelligence

Singularintelligence /ɪnˈtɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒəns/
Pluralintelligences
Countablecountable and uncountable

Intelligences in a sentence

  • He passes beyond the projections and thought forms of his own creation to the wholly other and independent world of the angelic intelligences.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
  • This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry. From the entry exterminate
  • All the actions of created intelligences are not merely the actions of God.1996, Bob Burridge, “God’s Decrees: Certainty and Contingency”, in Survey Studies in Reformed Theology, Genevan Institute for Reformed…. From the entry pandeism
  • Geth being synthetic intelligences, armatures are not crewed vehicles, but intelligent entities, capable of independent decision-making and learning.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth: Armatures Codex entry. From the entry armored fighting vehicle
  • Policy debates take place at all hours of the day, in official chat rooms and forums moderated by specially-programmed virtual intelligences.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Government Codex entry. From the entry free-wheeling

Meaning of intelligence

  1. noun The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
  2. noun An individual's expected relative performance in a cognitive test.
  3. noun The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Full definition of intelligence

Questions about the plural of intelligence

What is the plural of intelligence?
The plural of intelligence is intelligences.
Is intelligence countable?
Intelligence is a countable and uncountable noun.

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