Noun

(lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

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*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}

(lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:If my instructions may be your guide.

(lb) An order or command.

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions 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.

(lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

Noun

The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture

The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.

The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture

''These fields are in cultivation .

Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)

His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.

Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

She is a woman of great cultivation .