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Adjective objective has 4 senses

objective, nonsubjective - undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
Antonyms: subjective, personal, prejudiced, unobjective, unverifiable
objective, accusative - serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"
objective - emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; "objective art"
Antonym: nonrepresentational (indirect, via representational)
objective - belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "concrete benefits"; "a concrete example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
Antonym: abstract (indirect, via concrete)

Noun objective has 2 senses

aim, object, objective, target - the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"
--₁ is a kind of goal, end
--₁ has particulars: business; point; thing
objective, object glass - the lens or system of lenses nearest the object being viewed
--₂ is a kind of lens, lense, lens system
--₂ is a part of optical telescope; compound microscope