I.

Definition: Term Class Characteristics Online free dictionary:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org

II. Description
Types:
1. Physical general : Size, length, width, depth,
volume, color, texture, etc.
Language:

Qualifying adjectives
Adverbs

2. Physical specific: Size, volume, length,

width,
Volume.
Specific units of measures
3. Function description: Use, function,
purpose.
4. Process description: Sequence/ consecutive
Steps/ stages: Initial/ middle/ concluding
Language: Simple Present/ past/ progressive
tenses.

1.'kathode rays' that emanate from a cathode within an

evacuated tube.
2.These rays were a form of light
3.They were charged with negative electricity, and that
positive charge flowed towards the cathode even as the
negative rays came from it

Some Definition examples taken from: An Overview of Computer

Networks ( p. 2, text 2, I: Ring Topology )

0. Network: any net like combination of filaments, veins, passages, stations:

a
network of arteries
a group of transmitting stations linked by wire or microwave
relay
1. Topology:
a. The study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant
under certain transformations.
b. Also called point set topology, the study of limits in sets as collections of
points.
c. A collection of open sets making a given set a topological space.
2. Adjacent:
a. lying near, close or contiguous.
b. just before, after, facing: a map on a adjacent page.
3. Neighbour:
a. A person who lives near another.
b. A person or thing that is near another.
4.

Damage:

a. Injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did

considerable damage to the crops.
b. cost, expense, charge: What are the damages for the lubrication job
of my car ?
5. Clockwise:
a. In the direction that the hands of a clock rotate.

6. Breakdown:
a. A sudden loss of ability to function efficiently.
b. A loss of physical or mental health.
c. an electric discharge passing through a faulty material.