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A definition is a passage describing the meaning of a term (a word or phrase or other set of symbols). The term to be defined is the (plural definienda). A term may have many different senses or meanings. For each such specific sense, a (plural definientia) is a cluster of words that defines it.
A chief difficulty in managing definition is the need to use other terms that are already understood or whose definitions are easily obtainable. The use of the term in a simple example may suffice. By contrast, a dictionary definition has additional details, typically including an etymology showing snapshots of the earlier meanings and the parent language.
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