Usually means: Specific, small element of something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word detail:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. detail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. detail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detail, detail: Wordnik
  7. detail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detail: Wiktionary
  9. detail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Detail, detail: Dictionary.com
  13. detail: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. detail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DETAIL (professional journal), Detail (musician), Detail (record producer), Detail, The Detail (TV series), The Detail (The Wire), The Detail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Detail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. detail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. detail: Rhymezone
  19. Detail (nt), detail, detail (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. detail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. detail: Free Dictionary
  22. detail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. detail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. detail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detail: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DETAIL: Accounting Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. detail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. detail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DETAIL: Acronym Finder
  3. detail: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detail: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
noun:  (uncountable) A profusion of details.
noun:  (uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
noun:  A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
noun:  (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
noun:  (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
noun:  An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
noun:  A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
noun:  (paintings) A selected portion of a painting.
verb:  (transitive) To explain in detail.
verb:  (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/)
verb:  (transitive, military, law enforcement) To assign to a particular task.

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