instruction
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Noun (4)instructions
- a message describing how something is to be done“he gave directions faster than she could follow them”Synonyms: directionType of message, contentKinds rule, recipe, prescription, stage direction, markup, address, misdirection, style, rubric, system command
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill“he received no formal education”“our instruction was carefully programmed”“good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded”Synonyms: educationteachingpedagogydidacticseducational activityType of activityKinds course, extension, higher education, work-study program, coeducation, continuing education, secondary education, team teaching, extracurricular activity, elementary educationParts lesson, classroom project, classwork, prep
- the profession of a teacher“he prepared for teaching while still in college”“pedagogy is recognized as an important profession”Synonyms: teachingpedagogyType of educationKinds lesson, schooling, lecture, sleep-learning, spoonfeeding, teaching reading, catechetical instruction, tutelage, catechesis, language teaching +1 more
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer programSynonyms: commandstatementprogram lineType of code, computer codeKinds macro, command line, link, call, system error, togglePart of program, programme
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Translations
Noun act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge
- Spanish
- instrucción
- French
- instruction
- German
- Unterweisung
- Italian
- istruzione
- Portuguese
- instrução
- Russian
- обуче́ние obučénije
- Arabic
- تَعْلِيم taʕlīm
- Chinese
- 教导 jiàodǎo
- Dutch
- onderwijs
- Swedish
- undervisning
15 more languages
- Greek
- οδηγία odigía
- Indonesian
- instruksi
- Vietnamese
- hướng dẫn
- Hungarian
- oktatás
- Portuguese (PT)
- instrução
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 教導 jiàodǎo
- Albanian
- udhëzim
- Catalan
- instrucció
- Czech
- instrukce
- Esperanto
- instruado
- Finnish
- opastus
- Hebrew
- הוראה Hora'ah
- Romanian
- instruire
- Scottish Gaelic
- stiùireadh
- Welsh
- hyfforddiant
Noun single operation of a processor
- Italian
- istruzione
- Portuguese
- instrução
- Turkish
- komut
- Russian
- инстру́кция instrúkcija
- Arabic
- أَمْر ʔamr
- Chinese
- 指令 zhǐlìng
- Japanese
- 命令 meirei
- Dutch
- instructie
- Swedish
- instruktion
- Greek
- εντολή entolí
16 more languages
- Indonesian
- instruksi
- Vietnamese
- chỉ thị
- Hungarian
- utasítás
- Portuguese (PT)
- instrução
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 指令 zhǐlìng
- Albanian
- instruksion
- Catalan
- instrucció
- Czech
- instrukce
- Danish
- instruktion
- Esperanto
- instrukcio
- Finnish
- käsky
- Georgian
- ინსტრუქცია instruktsia
- Hebrew
- הוראה Hora'ah
- Norwegian
- instruksjon
- Romanian
- instrucțiune
- Swahili
- agizo
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. instructio: cf. F. instruction.
1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: (a) Precept; information; teachings. (b) Direction; order; command. “If my instructions may be your guide.” William Shakespeare
3. Computers a segment of coded data that is interpreted by a computer as a command to perform an operation or series of operations. The term instruction is applied to both the electronic form of the data as represented in and executed by the computer, and to any line of written computer code which is interpreted as one instruction by a compiler. A computer program is comprised of one or more instructions. Instructions as contained in a program are formulated in a programming language, which may be an assembly language, in which one instruction corresponds to one command executed by the coputer, or in a higher-level programming language, in which one instruction may represent one of many instructions in assembly language. Higher-level programming languages include, for example, FORTRAN, ALGOL, ADA, C, "C++", COBOL, and JAVA; each of these languages have their own distinctive set of allowable instructions. Syn. — command, statement, line of code, program line.
Synonyms: Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> The smallest element of a machine code program.
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