Meaning is a term used to characterize the physiological process of receiving and recognizing sensations and stimuli that are produced through the human being's sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste.
This physiological process is related to the production of sensations from situations of the body, establishing immediate contact with reality and cognitive processes, as a reaction to stimuli. An example of this is when someone tickles some part of the body. Automatically, it reacts so that you have a laugh or stop that movement reaction.
Meaning can also refer to human understanding or reason. It is then a way of understanding a certain subject or knowledge applied to certain actions. In this context, meaning is related to the act of having a point of view about something.
Example:"Ana seeks to understand the meaning of life".
The term meaning can also characterize the concentration or attention to a certain activity performed, in addition to being related to the idea of having a purpose to be achieved or to a process of coherence of facts.
Example:"The resignation of the minister is totally meaningless".
In Portuguese, the use of the word meaning is made in different ways. It usually refers to what has meaning in a given context.
In this context, we then have two types of meanings: The meaning connotative or figurative sense, corresponds to a different interpretation of its original meaning and the denotative sense refers to the original and literal use of the word.
The term can also relate to giving more than one meaning to an expression, word or phrase. is the call double meaning.
Example:"Woman equals coin, either heads or tails".
Meaning can also be characterized as an adjective used to refer to those who are offended or hurt by a situation.
Example:"Melissa was very sorry for her attitude".
The word is also used as a command voice in military troops to draw the troops' attention.
Sense in Physics
In the study of Physics, sense is understood as one of the components of vector quantities in the study of motion. They need, in addition to the value and the unit of measure, also inform the direction and direction.
In this context, the direction is then the imaginary path that a body uses for its locomotion and the direction is what will indicate the side to which this body will move.