Definition of Description&tl=

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description
n. descriptive statement, word picture, depiction; type

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DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Interface Description Language
(IDL) A language designed by Nestor, Lamb and Wulf of CMU in 1981 for describing the data structures passed between parts of an application, to provide a language-independent intermediate representation.
It forms part of Richard Snodgrass rts@cs.arizona.edu's Scorpion environment development system.
Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs.
Mailing list: info-idl@sei.cmu.edu.
["The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use," by Richard Snodgrass, Computer Science Press, 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8198-0].
[SIGPLAN Notices 22(11) (Nov 1987) special issue].
(1994-11-11)

JDK Doc(JAVA)
description
- Variable in class java.sql.DriverPropertyInfo 
public String description
A brief description of the property, which may be null.


DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Description
(n.)
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
  
(n.)
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
  
(n.)
A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
  

WordNet 2.0
description
Noun
1. a statement that represents something in words
(synonym) verbal description
(hypernym) statement
(hyponym) job description
2. the act of describing something
(hypernym) speech act
(hyponym) characterization, characterisation
(derivation) report, describe, account
3. sort or variety; "every description of book was there"
(hypernym) kind, sort, form, variety

The Phrase Finder
It beggar'd all description
Origin
From Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

hEnglish - advanced version
description
description
\de*scrip"tion\ (?), n. [f. description, l. descriptio. see describe.]
1. the act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
2. a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. milton has descriptions of morning. webster.
3. a class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. a difference between them and another description of public creditors. hamilton. the plates were all of the meanest description.

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 hardware description language 
 organic description of a curve 
 interface description language 
 page description language 
 target-machine description language 
 resource description framework 
 verbal description 


DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

Theological and Philosophical Biography and Dictionary
Description
(Russell) * Knowledge by description


DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Description
kethelvaya



PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Glossary
Description
A mandatory part of the international application which discloses the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for the invention to be carried out by a person skilled in the art.
  


DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

A Basic Guide to ASL
Describe (description)
The 'F' hands, palms facing and fingers pointing straight out, are held about an inch apart. They move alternately back and forth a few inches.


DESCRIPTION&tl= Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Description
For the linguistics term, see Prescription and description. For the scientific research term, see Scientific method.
Description in the common parlance has a variety of context dependent meanings, it can be: providing some information, an explanation, a representation or a general model of something. It can be an act or its product. More formally, a description consists of an enumeration of the quantitative and qualitative parameters which seek to provide a definition of some thing, such as what that thing looks like, sounds like, or feels like, distinguishing one state from another and general characteristics commonly noticed which in popular culture define or distinguish something. It can represent subtle differences in states. A complete description is created and used in scientific disciplines as technical terminology. It may be representable as a set or vector of qualities. Description is the product of thought bounded by beginnings, endings, context, perspective, similarities, differences and, when applied, interpretation.

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