description

  • 1Description — De*scrip tion, n. [F. description, L. descriptio. See {Describe}.] 1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. [1913 Webster] 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration… …

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  • 2DESCRIPTION — s. f. Discours par lequel on décrit, on dépeint. Il y a de belles descriptions dans cet historien, dans ce poëte. La description d un palais, d une maison, d un jardin, d un paysage, d une tempête, des effets d une passion. Faire une description …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 3DESCRIPTION — n. f. Action de décrire, développement par lequel on décrit, on dépeint. Faire une description. La description d’un palais, d’une maison, d’un paysage, d’une tempête, des effets d’une passion. La description d’une plante, d’un animal, d’une… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 4description — noun Etymology: Middle English descripcioun, from Anglo French & Latin; Anglo French, from Latin description , descriptio, from describere Date: 14th century 1. a. an act of describing; specifically discourse intended to give a mental image of… …

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  • 5Description logic — (DL) is a family of formal knowledge representation languages. It is more expressive than propositional logic but has more efficient decision problems than first order predicate logic. DL is used in artificial intelligence for formal reasoning on …

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  • 6Description language — may refer to: Interface description language aka interface definition language (IDL) Regular Language description for XML (RELAX) Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Page description language (PDL) Binary Format Description language… …

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  • 7Description number — Description numbers are numbers that arise in the theory of Turing machines. They are very similar to Gödel numbers, and are also occasionally called Gödel numbers in the literature. Given some universal Turing machine, every Turing machine can,… …

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  • 8Description de l'Égypte (disambiguation) — Description de l Égypte is the title of several books. Description de l Égypte Description de l Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l expédition de l armée française Pub; First Edition (23… …

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  • 9Description of a Project — (DOAP) is an RDF schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, and in particular open source. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open source software projects. It is …

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  • 10Description of the Starry Raft — (Chinese: 星槎勝覽 Xin Cha Shen Lan) is written in year 1436 by Fei Xin, who had participated in the third, fifth, and seventh of expeditions of the Ming fleets to the Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean commanded by the eunuch Zheng He. [1] The book …

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