instruction

Definitions

General English

  • noun a statement telling someone what they must do

General Science

  • noun a piece of information on how something should be operated or used

Accounting

  • noun an order which tells what should be done or how something is to be used

Aviation

  • noun the act of giving information or knowledge, usually in a formal setting such as a lesson or briefing

Computing

  • noun a word used in a programming language that is understood by the computer as a command to carry out a particular action

Information & Library Science

  • noun clear and detailed information about how to do something, published in a manual or typed into a computer to cause the machine to work

Military

  • noun an act of telling someone to do something
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