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An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. (more info) 1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification;

Additional info about word: DEFINITION

An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. (more info) 1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. 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. Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the term defined stands for. Locke. 3. Description; sort. "A new creature of another definition." Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFINITION)

• Demarcation
• Definition
• outline
• sketch
• delineation
• bounding
• inclosure
• plan
• limitation
• Interpretation
• Version
• explanation
• rendering
• exposition
• definition
• sense
• solution

Related words: (words related to DEFINITION)

• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• DEMARCATION
  The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• EXPOSITION
  1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
• DEFINITIONAL
  Relating to definition; of the nature of a definition; employed in defining.
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• SKETCH
  An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also,
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• SOLUTION
  The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
• SKETCHILY
  In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." Bartlett.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• SKETCHINESS
  The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.
• DEFINITION
  An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence. (more info) 1. The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, the telescope accurate in definition. 2. Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification;
• VERSION
  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. 3. The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. 4. A translation;
• RENDER
  One who rends.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• OUTLINEAR
  Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. Trench.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• SUBVERSIONARY
  Promoting destruction.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.