Introduction vs. Definition
Introductionnoun
The act or process of introducing.
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A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
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An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
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A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
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The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
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The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.
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That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.
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A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.
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the first section of a communication
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the act of beginning something new;
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formally making a person known to another or to the public
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a basic or elementary instructional text
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a new proposal;
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the act of putting one thing into another
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the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;
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the action of introducing something
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a thing newly brought into use or introduced to a place for the first time
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a formal presentation of one person to another, in which each is told the other's name
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a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech
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a preliminary section in a piece of music, often thematically different from the main section
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a book or course of study intended to introduce a subject to a person
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a person's first experience of a subject or thing
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A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).
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A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
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The action or process of defining.
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The act of defining; determination of the limits.
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A product of defining.
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The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
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Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
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Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
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Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
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(bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
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(programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
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(mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
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The act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.
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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.
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Description; sort.
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An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence.
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Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.
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a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
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clarity of outline;
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a statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary
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an exact statement or description of the nature, scope, or meaning of something
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the action or process of defining something
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the degree of distinctness in outline of an object, image, or sound
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the capacity of a device to make images distinct in outline
Definition
A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term) and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes).
