define definition?

Answer 1

Definition is definite meaning stating unambiguously what it is and what it is not.

Answer 2

A Definition is the shortest way of expressing a big idea.
The best and incomparable definition I have found in this world is the definition of Yoga by Sage Pathanjali. He difined yoga in one sutra "Yogaha chitta vrutti Nirodaha"
Which means if Vruttis in the chitta are removed yoga is attained .
Now you will have to read the full pathanjali yoga sutra for the full explanation of what is chitta and how to do nivrutti.

Answer 3

a label created by man to make it easy for us to both communicate with each other and associate things within the physical world with the mental picture we as individuals build up. without definitions everybody would have their own language due to us having the ability to describe things in our own terms; if you ask somebody to describe a colour (florescent green is a good one to use) people have different views some will say yellow others will say green etc

Answer 4

Definition, the method of placing an item into multiple generalised categories that together describe all the properties of the item.

Answer 5

Definition is the act or state of describing an object, term or concept to another person so that they are now aware of the same term, object or concept as you are.

Answer 6

question processing: that's the processing of the question (rather? :-) by parsing it and breaking it into inner DB engine-communicate. question execution plan: From the parsed question, the engine creates its very own inner plan of steps which would be finished. that's going to attempt to optimise this, relying on the question and the character of the tables. this would remember on the form of the particular database; Oracle's procedures would be very distinctive from sq./Server's. Sequential I/O this suggests analyzing/writing from/to a wisdom source, from the start to the tip sequentially. Random I/O this suggests study/write that would rapidly get entry to any part of the advice source. Merge connect that's an set of rules to accomplish a connect on 2 tables so as, used for the period of the question execution. It merges the fields from a column from one table right into a subset of fields in a column of yet another table. those are the 'merge' columns. style - Merge connect this would be a extra in contact technique of turning right into a member of two tables the place the ordering is extra awkward. The tables are taken care of first, observed by a merge connect. wish that enables!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

A definition delimits or describes the meaning of a concept or term by stating the essential properties of the entities or objects denoted by that concept or term. The word or phrase to be defined is formally referred to by the Latin term definiendum (plural: definienda) and the phrase defining it is the definiens (plural: definientia).

Often, a definition is simply a statement that expresses a logical equivalence between the definiendum and the definiens. For example, in the definition "a bachelor is an unmarried man", the definiendum is "bachelor", and the definiens is "unmarried man". In mathematics (ie. symbolic logic), the words "a", "is", and "an" are replaced by the : = sign , which expresses that the first term is defined by the following term(s), hence: bachelor: = unmarried.man.

Kinds of definition
A number of different kinds and techniques of definition can be distinguished, including:

A dictionary definition or lexical definition reports the meaning of a word or expression as it is normally used, usually by supplying an approximately equivalent expression in which the original word does not occur. For example, bachelor might be defined as an unmarried man; and fry as to cook in hot oil. (Notice the addition of "an" and "to" in each case, so that the defining expression is not perfectly inter-substitutable with the original: You can say John is a bachelor, but not John is a an unmarried man. This is normal practice, and is done simply for ease of reading.) With some words, like the and if, which cannot be effectively paraphrased, dictionaries will often describe their proper use without offering an equivalent expression. (On the circularity and groundedness of dictionary definitions, see the symbol grounding problem and the "dictionary-go-round").

A definition by genus and difference “is one in which a word or concept that indicates a species -- a specific type of item, not necessarily a biological category -- is described first by a broader category, the genus, then distinguished from other items in that category by differentia.” (E.g., a bachelor (species) is a man (genus) who is not married (differentium), and to fry (species) is to cook (genus) in hot oil (differentium).)

Contextual definition. Some words cannot be clearly defined on their own, but it is possible to offer a schema for defining every sentence in which they occur--that is, a way of replacing every sentence containing the expression with another sentence not containing the expression. Russell's famous Theory of Descriptions was an attempt (now widely believed to be incorrect) to do this for all definite descriptions—expressions of the form the (unique) x. On Russell's account, any sentence containing (for example) the expression "the present king of France" was to be rearranged like this: The present king of France is bald means There is exactly one thing which is currently a king of France, and that thing is bald. Notice that the defined expression, a noun phrase, is replaced by a sentence (There is . . . France) and a noun phrase (that thing) which appears in the position of the original.

An intensional definition specifies all and only the properties required of something in order that it fall under the term defined (its necessary and sufficient conditions). This, like the following, is typically used to characterize ways of specifying sets. For example, the set of primes less than 20, or {x:x is prime and x < 20}, is an intensional definition of a set.

An extensional definition of a concept or term formulates its meaning by specifying its extension, that is, every object that falls under the definition of the concept or term in question.

An enumerative definition of a concept or term is a special type of extensional definition that gives an explicit and exhaustive listing of all the objects that fall under the concept or term in question. Enumerative definitions are only possible for finite sets and only practical for relatively small sets.

An ostensive definition gives the meaning of a term by pointing out the thing denoted by it, or pointing out examples of the kind of thing meant by it. So you can explain who Jones is by pointing him out to me; or what a dog is by pointing at several and expecting me to "catch on."

An operational definition of a quantity is a specific process whereby it is measured.

A genetic definition describes the process or method by which a thing is formed.[1]

A theoretical definition gives the meaning of a word in terms of the theories of a specific discipline.

A recursive definition or inductive definition is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way. Normally this consists of two (or three) steps: (I) Several specific objects (a "base set") are stated to fall under the term X being described. (II) All and only the things bearing a certain relation to members of X are also stated to be members of X. For instance, we could define natural number as follows: (I) 1 is a natural number. (II) The successor of a natural number is also a natural number, and nothing else is. ("Nothing else is", the closure step, is sometimes considered a separate step.) For this to work well, the definition in any given case must be well-founded, avoiding a circle or an infinite regress. (See the following.)

A circular definition is one that assumes a prior understanding of the term being defined. For instance, we can define "oak" as a tree which has catkins and grows from an acorn, and then define "acorn" as the nut produced by an oak tree. To someone not knowing either which trees are oaks or which nuts are acorns, the definition is usually fairly useless. (see tautology)

A stipulative definition is the specification of a meaning adopted or assumed specifically for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context. For example, I might want to explain to you how beer is made, but not be sure whether sake is a kind of beer nor how it is made. So I might stipulate at the beginning that By 'beer,' I mean only beer brewed from barley.

A precising definition "is a definition that extends the dictionary definition (lexical definition) of a term for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition."

A persuasive definition "is a type of definition in which a term is defined in such a way as to be an argument for a particular position (as opposed to a lexical definition, which aims to be neutral to all usages), and is deceptive in that it has the surface form of a dictionary definition."

Answer 9

a word to clarify another

or define another (pmsl)

Answer 10

definition is to clarify the meaning or purpose of something.