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quickstart

quickstart noun: a guide or manual intended to get a user rapidly acquainted with a program or system.

Noun

quickstart (plural quickstarts)

  1. A guide or manual intended to get a user rapidly acquainted with a program or system.
    • If you have already created the controller using the quickstart at the beginning of the chapter[…]2010, Josh Juneau, Jim Baker, Leo Soto, The Definitive Guide to Jython, page 336
    • There are a large number of individual quickstarts, each of which illustrates one or more JBoss ESB features.2011, Len DiMaggio, Kevin Conner, Magesh Kumar B, Tom Cunningham, JBoss ESB Beginner's Guide

Forms of quickstart

pluralquickstarts

Origin of quickstart

From quick + start.

Questions about quickstart

What does quickstart mean?
Quickstart means a guide or manual intended to get a user rapidly acquainted with a program or system.
What part of speech is quickstart?
Quickstart is a noun.
What is the plural of quickstart?
The plural of quickstart is quickstarts.

Words near quickstart in the dictionary

  1. quicksome
  2. quicksort
  3. quicksorted
  4. quicksorting
  5. quicksorts
  6. quickstart
  7. quickstarts
  8. quickstep
  9. quickstepped
  10. quickstepping
  11. quicksteps

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