Inception

/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/ · noun

Meaning

The creation or beginning of something; the establishment..

Definitions by Sense

1. The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
2. A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.

Example Sentences

From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.

To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

For a few moments they spoke of the opera, of the topics that were then occupying the attention of Paris, of the pleasure of renewing their brief acquaintance which had had its inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was uppermost in the minds of both.

My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.

Utilizing a case register in Salford, England, Stein and Susser have studied inceptions of psychiatric illness […] Inceptions, defined as first episode of psychiatric care in a person's life, […]

Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.

Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception

I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception

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