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 `@dfn'{TERM}
 ------------
 
   Use the `@dfn' command to identify the introductory or defining use
 of a technical term.  Use the command only in passages whose purpose is
 to introduce a term which will be used again or which the reader ought
 to know.  Mere passing mention of a term for the first time does not
 deserve `@dfn'.  The command generates italics in the printed manual,
 and double quotation marks in the Info file.  For example:
 
      Getting rid of a file is called @dfn{deleting} it.
 
 produces
 
      Getting rid of a file is called "deleting" it.
 
   As a general rule, a sentence containing the defining occurrence of a
 term should be a definition of the term.  The sentence does not need to
 say explicitly that it is a definition, but it should contain the
 information of a definition--it should make the meaning clear.
 

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