instruction
/ɪnˈstrʌkʃən/
noun
- A direction or order telling someone what to do, often in a set of steps.
- Please read the instructions before assembling the furniture.
- Follow the instructions on the medicine bottle carefully.
- The teacher gave clear instructions for the homework assignment.
- The act or process of teaching or educating someone.
- Online instruction has become more popular in recent years.
- The school offers instruction in several foreign languages.
- She received instruction in piano from a famous musician.
- A command in a computer program that tells the processor to perform a specific operation.
- A simple instruction like 'ADD' tells the computer to add two numbers.
- The CPU can execute millions of instructions per second.
- Each instruction in the code must be written correctly for the program to run.
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