Object may refer to:

General meanings
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
Computing
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, 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 (image processing), a portion of an image interpreted as a unit
Object file, the output of a compiler or other translator program (also known as "object code")
Object, an information source for an information processor
HTML object element

Mathematics
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
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
Astronomical object
In object relations theory of psychoanalysis, that to which a subject relates

Arts and media
Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), a sculpture by Méret Oppenheim
An Object, an album by No Age, 2013
"Object", a song by the Cure from Three Imaginary Boys, 1979
"Object", a song by Ween from La Cucaracha, 2007
The Object, a prop used by Hipgnosis for the Led Zeppelin album Presence

Other uses
Object language (disambiguation)
Object (National Register of Historic Places), a classification used by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Object: Australian Design Centre, a non-profit organisation promoting design in Australia
Object theory (disambiguation)
Объект (object), (Russian GABTU), military vehicle designations

See also
Artifact (disambiguation)
Objection (disambiguation)
Objective (disambiguation)
Objet dart, works of art that are not paintings; large or medium-sized sculptures, prints or drawings
A higher than normal concentration may reflect any of several medical conditions, including acute inflammation of the pancreas (it may be measured concurrently with the more specific lipase), perforated peptic ulcer, torsion of an ovarian cyst, strangulation, ileus, mesenteric ischemia, macroamylasemia and mumps. Amylase may be measured in other body fluids, including urine and peritoneal fluid. A January 2007 study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that saliva tests of the enzyme could be used to indicate sleep deficits, as the enzyme increases its activity in correlation with the length of time a subject has been deprived of sleep. History
In 1831, Erhard Friedrich Leuchs (1800–1837) described the hydrolysis of starch by saliva, due to the presence of an enzyme in saliva, "ptyalin", an amylase. it was named after the Ancient Greek name for saliva: πτύαλον - ptyalon. The modern history of enzymes began in 1833, when French chemists Anselme Payen and Jean-François Persoz isolated an amylase complex from germinating barley and named it "diastase". It is from this term that all subsequent enzyme names tend to end in the suffix -ase. In 1862, Alexander Jakulowitsch Danilewsky (1838–1923) separated pancreatic amylase from trypsin. Evolution
Salivary amylase
Saccharides are a food source rich in energy. Large polymers such as starch are partially hydrolyzed in the mouth by the enzyme amylase before being cleaved further into sugars. Many mammals have seen great expansions in the copy number of the amylase gene.