What does textbook mean?

Definitions for textbook
ˈtɛkstˌbʊktext·book

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word textbook.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. textbook, text, text edition, schoolbook, school textadjective

    a book prepared for use in schools or colleges

    "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy"

  2. casebook, textbookadjective

    according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical

    "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"

Wiktionary

  1. textbooknoun

    A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

  2. textbookadjective

    Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

  3. textbookadjective

    Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon.

Wikipedia

  1. Textbook

    A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. Today, many textbooks are published in both print and digital formats.

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  1. textbook

    A textbook is a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study. It is a book utilized in schools and colleges as a standard instructional tool for a particular course of study. Textbooks are intended to present the subjects in a logical, organized manner, often including exercises, illustrations, summaries, and references for further study. They typically cover various topics within a specific academic discipline to facilitate learning and understanding.

Wikidata

  1. Textbook

    A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books and increasingly, although illegally, in scanned format on file sharing networks.

Editors Contribution

  1. textbook

    Textbook (adj) a book used by students inside the campus.

    Textbook a reviewer related to the study of a subject.


    Submitted by pinkss5 on October 21, 2015  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of textbook in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of textbook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of textbook in a Sentence

  1. Eric Holcomb:

    This is as close to a textbook response as it could have been.

  2. Günter Bechly:

    If a theory and its proponents stubbornly refuse falsification by an ever increasing body of substantial conflicting evidence, the theory degenerates into a textbook example of dogmatic pseudo-science. The neo-Darwinian theory of macroevolution has failed on all fronts, from mathematical feasibility, to theoretical plausibility and explanatory power, to empirical support.

  3. Lee Cook-jong:

    In my over 20 year-long career as a surgeon, I have only seen something like this in a textbook.

  4. Edith Hamilton:

    A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  5. Kenneth Broux:

    This is a textbook flight to quality into yen and the Swiss franc on the new virus strain with the thin liquidity also a factor which may accelerate the unwinding of short bond positions.

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