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NOUN:
  1. The act, practice, or profession of instructing.
    1. Imparted knowledge.
    2. An imparted or acquired item of knowledge; a lesson.
  3. Computer Science A sequence of bits that tells a central processing unit to perform a particular operation and can contain data to be used in the operation.
    1. An authoritative direction to be obeyed; an order. Often used in the plural: had instructions to be home by midnight.
    2. instructions Detailed directions on procedure: read the instructions for assembly.


OTHER FORMS:
in·struction·al(Adjective)


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