instruction

Noun

1. The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
   • Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
   • Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
   • Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.” - 1927, F....
2. An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
   • If my instructions may be your guide. - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
3. An order or command.
   • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him...
4. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
5. The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
   • I cannot act until I have taken instructions from my client.
6. A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.