Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
description — A portrayal of a subject by reference to its features and incidents; a representation in words. As it applies to property, a delineation in a mortgage, deed, contract, or other instrument affecting the title to property, by means of which the… … Ballentine's law dictionary
description, implied term — where there is a contract for the sale of goods by description, there is an implied term that the goods will correspond with the description. If the sale is by sample as well as by description, it is not sufficient that the bulk of the goods… … Law dictionary
Description — For other uses, see Description (disambiguation). Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms… … Wikipedia
Description (disambiguation) — A description of something (such as an object, a person, or an event) is a written or spoken account presenting characteristics and aspects of that which is being described in sufficient detail that the audience can form a mental picture,… … Wikipedia
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Principle of sufficient reason — The principle of sufficient reason (also called the Causal Doctrine) states that anything that happens does so for a definite reason. In virtue of which no fact can be real or no statement true unless it has sufficient reason why it should be… … Wikipedia
Session Description Protocol — (SDP) is a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters in an ASCII string. The IETF published the original specification as an IETF Proposed Standard in April 1998 [ cite web|url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2327 |title=SDP:… … Wikipedia
Minimum description length — The minimum description length (MDL) principle is a formalization of Occam s Razor in which the best hypothesis for a given set of data is the one that leads to the best compression of the data. MDL was introduced by Jorma Rissanen in 1978. It is … Wikipedia
Definite description — A definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of the X where X is a noun phrase or a singular common noun. The definite description is proper if X applies to a unique individual or object. For example: the first person in space and the… … Wikipedia
