Definition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFINITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an act of determining
• a statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary
• an exact statement or description of the nature, scope, or meaning of something
• the action or process of defining something
• the degree of distinctness in outline of an object, image, or sound
• the capacity of a device to make images distinct in outline
• 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.
• a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
• clarity of outline
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act of determining; the formal proclamation of a Roman Catholic dogma

Words related to DEFINITION

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Words that contain DEFINITION

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How to use DEFINITION in a sentence

• Yet mature reflection shows two flaws in this definition.
• In this view, the definition of these functions becomes a task of great difficulty and involves the whole science of politics.
• Where there is no specific difference, as between round and square, all definition must be more or less arbitrary.
• The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
• He should have made the several kinds known, by a good definition of each.
• After this comprehensive warning, the definition of the book becomes, you will admit, a pretty hard nut to crack.
• By the way, do you know what definition Webster gives of a dandy in his large dictionary? It is worth remembering.
• Many men object to this definition of the preacher as being profane.
• The assumption need not necessarily be challenged except where, as is very often the case, an arbitrarily limited definition of experience is intended.
• Therefore, to preserve this definition, the ridicule must be either in the action or characters, or both.
• The second was the definition of the indeterminate and ever-widening authority which the Popes asserted over the kingdoms and the Churches of the West.
• In the earlier ages of the Church, the definition of heresy had been committed to episcopal authority.
• With his definition of sincerity that comes out in the following extracts I have myself often found fault in conversation and by letter, but I never produced any change.
• Your definition of the love of God seemed almost like a reproach to my conscience.
• Those of the first part deal with matters of definition, with the essential characteristics of living things, and, at greater length, with the evidences of organic evolution.
• The problem before the modern investigator is, not to determine the essence and definition of religion but to inquire how religious phenomena, religious ideas and practices arose.
• His definition of Rationalism is beautifully lucid and logical.
• The indications are precisely the same as those illustrated in the preceding two examples as guides for the definition of figures.
• I feel that the attempt to be compact in the definition of literature ends in something that is rather meagre, partial, starved, and unsatisfactory.
• We all know that iron is a metal, but most of us would find it difficult to add to the definition just those things which distinguish iron from other metals.
• Individual figures sprang out of the tumult, impressed him momentarily, and lost definition again.
• As usual with Plato in discussing the virtues, with a view to their Logical definition, he presupposes that this is something beneficial and good.
• The application of the definition is not always easy, for money shades off into other things that serve the same purpose and are related in nature.
• Much of the disagreement as to the value of play is due to this lack of definition.
• The bore, to attempt a further definition, is simply a fellow human being out of his element.
• And religion both as a term and as a fact of experience is ultimate, and, because ultimate, incapable of definition.
• It is impossible to give a quite satisfactory definition, or to draw sharp distinctions.
• In the case of no other race is so narrow a definition attempted.

Similar words containing FINI without suffix tion and without prefix de

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