Define vs False - What's the difference?
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To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
* Sir (Isaac Newton)
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, title= (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.3:
To express the essential nature of something.
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, volume=101, issue=3, page=178, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.
To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
(computing, programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
* 1996 , James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
* 1999 , Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb define
is to determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.As a noun define
is (computing|programming) a kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.define
English
(Definition)Verb
(defin)- Ringsvery distinct and well defined .
Lee S. Langston
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define .
Crinkly Curves, passage=Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Derived terms
* definable * definerNoun
(en noun)- From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines , preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
- Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
External links
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English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}