A definition's a passage (usually prose) describing the meaning of a word or phrase. The term to be defined's known as the definiendum (Latin: what's to be defined). The words which define it're known as the definiens (Latin: what defines). Definitions also occur in more formal languages (like mathematics), often for the sake of discussion within the text of the manuscript (as opposed to being 'definitive' for general use in discourse). A prime difficulty for creating definitions's the need to… (More on Definitions)