Description (disambiguation)

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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, impression, or understanding of it.

Description may also refer to:

• Definite description, is discussed in the Philosophy of Language, as a phrase that denotes an object.
• Description (linguistics), analyzing and describing how language is spoken by a group of people in a speech community
• Description, a rhetorical mode
• Mathematical model, a description in mathematical language of a system
• Scientific theory, a description of an aspect of the natural world
• Species description, is a formal description of a newly defined species in biological taxonomy