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Definition of Description

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. --D. Webster. 3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. --A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. --Macaulay. Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.

Meaning of Description from wikipedia

- Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. It is one of four rhetorical...
- Minimum Description Length (MDL) is a model selection principle where the shortest description of the data is the best model. MDL methods learn through...
- Look up description in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A description of something (such as an object, a person, or an event) is a written or spoken account...
- A Description of the methods adopted by the Duke Valentino when murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di...
- Description language may refer to: Interface description language aka interface definition language (IDL) Regular Language description for XML (RELAX)...
- Description logics (DL) are a family of formal knowledge representation languages. Many DLs are more expressive than propositional logic but less expressive...
- Description of Africa, as a book title, may refer to: Description of Africa (1550 book) by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, published in Italian Description...
- Functional generative description (FGD) is a linguistic framework developed at Charles University in Prague since the 1960s by a team led by Petr Sgall...
- Motif description is the term that has been used for a form of dance notation; however, the current preferred terminology is Motif Notation. It is a subset...
- In the social sciences and related fields, a thick description is a description of human social action that describes not just physical behaviors, but...