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Definition

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.

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Definition Quotations

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Tony Robbins

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
George S. Patton

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

Definition Translations

definition in Afrikaans is definisie
definition in Dutch is bepaling, definitie, omschrijving
definition in German is Definition, Begriffsbestimmung
definition in Norwegian is definisjon

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