Description — De*scrip tion, n. [F. description, L. descriptio. See {Describe}.] 1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. [1913 Webster] 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
DESCRIPTION — s. f. Discours par lequel on décrit, on dépeint. Il y a de belles descriptions dans cet historien, dans ce poëte. La description d un palais, d une maison, d un jardin, d un paysage, d une tempête, des effets d une passion. Faire une description … Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)
DESCRIPTION — n. f. Action de décrire, développement par lequel on décrit, on dépeint. Faire une description. La description d’un palais, d’une maison, d’un paysage, d’une tempête, des effets d’une passion. La description d’une plante, d’un animal, d’une… … Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)
description — noun Etymology: Middle English descripcioun, from Anglo French & Latin; Anglo French, from Latin description , descriptio, from describere Date: 14th century 1. a. an act of describing; specifically discourse intended to give a mental image of… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Description logic — (DL) is a family of formal knowledge representation languages. It is more expressive than propositional logic but has more efficient decision problems than first order predicate logic. DL is used in artificial intelligence for formal reasoning on … Wikipedia
Description language — may refer to: Interface description language aka interface definition language (IDL) Regular Language description for XML (RELAX) Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Page description language (PDL) Binary Format Description language… … Wikipedia
Description de l'Égypte (disambiguation) — Description de l Égypte is the title of several books. Description de l Égypte Description de l Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l expédition de l armée française Pub; First Edition (23… … Wikipedia
Description of a Project — (DOAP) is an RDF schema and XML vocabulary to describe software projects, and in particular open source. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open source software projects. It is … Wikipedia
Description de l'Égypte — For other uses, see Description de l Égypte (disambiguation). The Description of Egypt … Wikipedia
Description of a Career — DoaC redirects here. DoaC may also refer to Diary of a Camper. Description Of A Career (DOAC) is a semantic vocabulary created by Ramon A. Parada to describe professional capabilities of a worker. It has been designed to be compatible with the… … Wikipedia
Description of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in IPCC reports — A selection of temperature reconstructions published between 1998 and 2005 The description of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in IPCC reports has changed since the first report in 1990 as scientific understanding of the temperature… … Wikipedia