instruction
noun/ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
Etymology From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + -ion.
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The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
- Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
1 more example
- Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
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An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- If my instructions may be your guide.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
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An order or command.
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
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In plural A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
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Law In plural The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- I cannot act until I have taken instructions from my client.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- Synonyms
- instruction, advice, counsel, education, indoctrination, information, teaching
- Derived terms
- absolute instruction, instructional, instruction cycle, instructionless, instruction set architecture, instruction time, machine instruction, macroinstruction, malinstruction, medium of instruction, microinstruction, misinstruction, nanoinstruction, noninstruction, ostrich instruction, overinstruction, postinstruction, preinstruction, pseudoinstruction, reinstruction, subinstruction, teleinstruction, universal design for instruction