Definition of "introduction" []

• The act or process of introducing or the state of being introduced. (noun)
• A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another. (noun)
• Something recently introduced; an innovation: "He loathed a fork; it is a modern introduction which has still scarcely reached common people” ( D.H. Lawrence). (noun)
• Something spoken, written, or otherwise presented in beginning or introducing something, especially: (noun)
• A preface, as to a book. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_."
• "Taylor may be best known for creating the images used for the title introduction sequence of the television series "Ghost Whisperer.""
• "If you want to read the Nicci French posts from last week, the introduction is here: you can just scroll ahead from there until you get to Barbara Fiser (and carry on reading, actually, her first post today, A blogging librarian who kills people in her spare time, is engaging)."