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/dɪskˈəʃən/ Listen

noun

Discussion n.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. (archaic)

The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. "The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard of all other liberties."

Discussion of a problem or Discussion of an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result.

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Etymology of 'Discussion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discussion" Quotes from Famous Books

... more likely to have to do with penitentiaries and prisons," Gracie said; but she abandoned discussion, and gave herself to the pleasure of arranging lonely flowers ...

— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden

... view is set aside by the Sutra. The word 'ether' in the text under discussion denotes the highest Self with its previously established characteristics—which is something quite different from the non-sentient elemental ether. For the qualities which the passage attributes ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... supplement, is a more technical discussion of those subjects introduced in the first. It is intended principally for those ...

— The Plattsburg Manual - A Handbook for Military Training • O.O. Ellis and E.B. Garey

... great urgency for me to reach Dublin at once. This unlucky incident has been so represented by the newspapers as to give considerable uneasiness to the Government, and they are even threatened with a discussion on it in the House. Now, I'd start to-morrow, if I thought I could travel with safety. You have so impressed me with your skill, that, if I dared, I'd ask you to convoy me up. Of course I ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... In this discussion of the scheme of the battle, around which interest chiefly centers, the actual events of the engagement have been in some measure anticipated, and may now be told more briefly. Driven to desperation by ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

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