The root definition is a concise verbal description of the system, which captures its essential nature.

As Davies shows, a concise description of this vanished kingdom is doomed to failure.

This group is the most concise description of the square's symmetry.

Current dictionary definitions, while attempting to give concise descriptions, often highlight the ambiguity of the term in modern use.

For methods there is (1) a short, concise, one line description to explain what the item does.

To these possibilities must be added miscellaneous positions not capable of concise description, in building societies, insurance companies, and so on.

This is the most concise and accurate description of the Republican front-runners I've read to date.

Use the appropriate heading (for example, "Figure"), followed by a number and a concise description of the item.

Piaget provided no concise description of the development process as a whole.

They range in scope from concise descriptions of a single social process to paradigms for analysis and interpretation.