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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishinstruccioun, fromOld Frenchinstruccion, fromLatininstructio; equivalent toinstruct +‎-ion.

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Noun

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instruction (countable anduncountable,pluralinstructions)

  1. (uncountable) The act ofinstructing,teaching, orproviding withinformation orknowledge.
    Students receiveinstruction in the arts and sciences.
    Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
    • 1927,F. E. Penny, chapter 5, inPulling the Strings:
      Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagersinstruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
  2. (countable) Aninstance of theinformation orknowledge so furnished.
  3. (countable) Anorder orcommand.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, [],→OCLC:
      Thus, when he drew upinstructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  4. (in theplural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
  5. (law, in theplural) Thedirections given by aclient to theirlawyer in relation to a particular legalmatter, which govern thepurpose andscope of their work.
    I cannot act until I have takeninstructions from my client.
  6. (computing) A single operation of aprocessor defined by aninstruction set architecture.

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Translations

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act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information
that which instructs, or with which one is instructed
order or command
single operation of a processor
set of directions provided by a manufacturer
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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinīnstrūctiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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instruction f (pluralinstructions)

  1. (chiefly in theplural)instruction,direction
  2. (chiefly in theplural)order
    Near-synonyms:directive,ordre
  3. training,teaching
  4. (law)investigation,enquiry
    juge d'instructionexamining magistrate

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