Discussion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Discussion	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discussion n an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" Synonym(s): discussion, treatment, discourse an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" Synonym(s): discussion, give-and-take, word
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discussion \Discus"sion\, n. [L. discussio a shaking, examination, discussion: cf. F. discussion.] 1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion* is the great safeguard of all other liberties. --Macaulay. {Discussion of a problem} [or] {an equation} (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. --Math. Dict.