detail applies to one of the small component parts of a larger whole such as a task, building, painting, narration, or process.

DETAIL definition: 1. a single piece of information or fact about something: 2. information about someone or…. Learn more.

Detail definition: an individual or minute part; an item or particular.. See examples of DETAIL used in a sentence.

2. an item or circumstance that is insignificant or unimportant: passengers' comfort was regarded as a detail. 3. treatment of or attention to items or particulars: this essay includes too much detail.

attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts: to postpone detail and concentrate on a subject as a whole. intricate, finely wrought decoration.

The details of something are its small, individual features or elements. If you examine or discuss something in detail, you examine all these features.

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