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SYLLABICATION:	doc·u·ment
PRONUNCIATION:	dky-mnt
NOUN:	1a. A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information. b. Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information. c. A writing that contains information. d. Computer Science A piece of work created with an application, as by a word processor. e. Computer Science A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications. 2. Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: doc·u·ment·ed, doc·u·ment·ing, doc·u·ments (-mnt)1. To furnish with a document or documents. 2. To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information. 3. To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docre, to teach. See dek- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	docu·mental (-mntl) —ADJECTIVE docu·menter —NOUN


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