Definition of "textbook" []

• A book used in schools or colleges for the formal study of a subject. (noun)
• Being a characteristic example of its kind; classic: a textbook case of schizophrenia. (adjective)

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• "This textbook is arranged in 15 lessons that promise to teach the reader “the foundations of visual storytelling”."
• ""John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls textbook plagiarism in the leggy blond pundit's Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program."
• "* More than half of the bundled textbooks surveyed (55 percent) were not available for students to purchase a la carte, in which the textbook is available without the add-on materials."