definition
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The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.
Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition.
Description; sort.
An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence.
Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.
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exercise had given his muscles superior definition
AAP is currently not eligible to receive funding because does not fall under the definition of a news media business, but it has written to the ACCC arguing its case to be included.
About 60 percent of health care spending goes to labor, so all the growth, almost by definition, meant new jobs.
Absent from that definition is action.
1980s The 1980s saw the rise of more general-purpose wearable computers that fit the modern definition of "computer" by going beyond task-specific hardware to more general-purpose (e.g. re-programmable by the user) devices.
A basis independent definition of one such extension is : where ⟨a⟩ denotes the scalar part of a (the grade 0 part in the Z-grading).