To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
the defining power of an optical instrument
To settle, decide (an argument etc.
These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.
To express the essential nature of something.
I define myself as a techno-anarchist.
A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
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.
From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin dēfīniō (“limit, settle, define”), from dē + fīniō (“set a limit, bound, end”).
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