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/dɪskˈəʃən/ Listen

noun

Discussion n.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. (archaic)

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."

Discussion of a problem or Discussion of an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result.

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Etymology of 'Discussion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discussion" Quotes from Famous Books

... between them. "Mr. Melvin is here at my request, and because he is your attorney. I have been instructing him how to draw the papers that are to accompany the collateral offered for your loan, and the bonus that goes with it; and just how those papers are to be used, in accordance with the discussion between you and me, at the bank, this afternoon. I told you, then, to inform Mr. Duncan that you would meet his requirements. Later, when I realized ...

— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman

... their mares," as an epithet applicable to numerous tribes, since the oldest of the Samatian nomads made their mares' milk one of their chief articles of diet. The epithet abion or abion, in this passage, has occasioned much discussion. It may mean, according as we read it, either "long-lived," or "bowless," the latter epithet indicating that they did not depend upon archery ...

— The Iliad of Homer • Homer

... house on fire or a shipwreck. But of such things it may be necessary to speak later. The point here is that Shaw behaved towards Socialism just as he behaved towards vegetarianism; he offered every reason except the emotional reason, which was the real one. When taxed in a Daily News discussion with being a Socialist for the obvious reason that poverty was cruel, he said this was quite wrong; it was only because poverty was wasteful. He practically professed that modern society annoyed him, not so much like an unrighteous kingdom, but rather like an untidy ...

— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... The discussion lasted for a long time; Mr. Medler pushing on, stage by stage, in the favour of his secret client, anxious to see whether Jacob Nowell might not be persuaded to allow his son's name to take the place of his granddaughter, whom he had never seen, and who was really no more than a stranger ...

— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon

... said. 'You disturb the queenly night, who, having come into this valley, is a guest in my dark halls. Let us have an end to this discussion.' ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

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