instruction

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.

   Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.

2. 2
   noun

   An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.

   If my instructions may be your guide.

3. 3
   noun

   An order or command.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.

   I cannot act until I have taken instructions from my client.

5. 5
   noun

   the activities of educating or instructing

6. 6
   noun

   the profession of a teacher

7. 7
   noun

   (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program

8. 8
   noun

   a message describing how something is to be done

Etymology

From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct + -ion.