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introduction
- 1) noun, the act of introducing or fact of being introduced
- 2) noun, a presentation of one person to another or others
- 3) noun, a means of presenting a person to another person, group, etc, such as a letter of introduction or reference
- 4) noun, a preliminary part, as of a book, speech, etc
- 5) noun, music a) an instrumental passage preceding the entry of a soloist, choir, etc b) an opening passage in a movement or composition that precedes the main material
- 6) noun, something that has been or is introduced, esp something that is not native to an area, country, etc
- 7) noun, a basic or elementary work of instruction, reference, etc
- 8) noun, logic (qualified by the name of an operation) a syntactic rule specifying the conditions under which a formula or statement containing the specified operator may be derived from others
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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launch, institution, establishment, start, opening, beginning, pioneer, presentation, initiation, inaugurate, induction, commencement, instigate, opening, prelude, preface, lead-in, preliminaries, overture, preamble, foreword, prologue, intro (informal), commencement, proem, prolegomenon, exordium, insertion, addition, injection, interpolate