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guidance

noun
/ˈɡaɪdəns/

Etymology

From guide + -ance. Displaced native Old English lādtēowdōm.

  1. derived from *weyd-✻ — “to see, know”
  2. derived from *wītaną✻ — “to see, know; go, depart”
  3. derived from *wītan✻ — “to show the way, lead”
  4. derived from guida
  5. derived from guide
  6. inherited from guide
  7. suffixed as guidance — “guide + ance”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of guiding.

  2. Advice or counselling on some topic.

    • divine guidance

  3. Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at guidance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at guidance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at guidance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA