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Preferred term

ostensive definition  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

  • owl:NamedIndividual

Broader concept

Description

  • a definition which includes a representation of the object or idea being described, as ‘yellow: a colour whose hue resembles that of ripe lemons or sunflowers’; also called synthetic definition. In a dictionary this can be supplemented by pictorial illustration or otherwise pointing directly at an object.
  • conveying the meaning of a term by pointing out examples

In other languages

  • definizio ostentsibo

    Basque

  • definició ostensiva

    Catalan

  • Ostenzivní definice

    Czech

  • ostensiv definition

    Danish

  • Ostension

    Dutch

  • ostensiivne definitsioon

    Estonian

  • ostensiivneve määratlus
  • définition ostensive

    French

  • ostensive Definition

    German

  • anschauliche Definition
  • hinweisende Definition
  • definizione ostensiva

    Italian

  • definizione sintetica
  • definicja ostensywna

    Polish

  • definicja deiktyczna
  • Definiție ostensivă

    Romanian

  • Остенсивное определение

    Russian

  • остензивна дефиниција

    Serbian

  • definición ostensiva

    Spanish

  • Ostension

    Swedish

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/ostensiveDefinition

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