recipe.
A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
Meaning & usage
A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
Stepper recipes.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).
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