DISCUSSION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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.