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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A definition in terms of concepts, instead of in terms of the results of measuring procedures or exemplification alone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: definition, meaning, identity, characterization
History
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Across languages
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