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/ɪnstrˈəkʃən/ Listen

noun

Instruction n.

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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."

(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. Note: 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.

Synonyms: command, statement, line of code, program line.

Synonyms: Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Instruction" Quotes from Famous Books

... religion, but we cannot have religion without true worship, whether the worship is only in our individual souls, or whether it is also the function of a church to which we belong, with a building dedicated to the worship of the Lord to which we go for prayer and for instruction. If we could clear ourselves from the deadening effects of tradition, from sentimentality, from nice theory, and from every touch of emotional and spurious peace, and take up the New Testament as if we were reading ...

— The Freedom of Life • Annie Payson Call

... one, the boys shook hands with the miner in token of fealty, and from that time until the steamer reached Skagway spent several hours a day with him in what he called his "first class in gettin' on the job." The most of this work included thorough instruction in the geography of Southeastern Alaska and Southern Yukon territory, the Colonel's land being located in the Canadian dominions. Especially was their attention drawn to numerous waterways as shown on the maps, which must form the highways for all transportation ...

— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor

... this is that story-telling is first of all an art of entertainment; like the stage, its immediate purpose is the pleasure of the hearer,—his pleasure, not his instruction, first. ...

— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant

... instruction in domestic matters, as we walked about on a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes, for example, when we passed a ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... that the Christian religion had a support in the life and behavior of those professing it, he determined to introduce into the pagan temples everywhere the order and discipline of the Christian religion: by orders and degrees of the ministry, by teachers and readers to give instruction in pagan doctrines and exhortations, by appointed prayers on certain days and at stated hours, by monasteries both for men and for women who desired to live in philosophical retirement, likewise hospitals for the relief of strangers and of the poor, and by other philanthropy toward ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

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