tutorial
Americanadjective
noun
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tutorials
plural
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a class in which a tutor gives intensive instruction in some subject to an individual student or a small group of students.
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Computers.
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programmed instruction provided to a user at a computer terminal, often concerning the use of a particular software package and built into that package.
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a manual explaining how to use a particular software package or computer system.
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noun
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Origin of tutorial
1735–45; < Latin tūtōri ( us ) of a guardian + -al 1
Explanation
A tutorial is a teaching session given to one student or a small group of students. If you are stuck in a class, you could use a tutorial. Teachers lead classes, but tutors are educators who also help students, usually one-on-one. Tutors don’t give grades: they just try to help or coach students. A session given by a tutor is called a tutorial. A tutorial could be a one-on-one session in a tutoring center or elsewhere. A tutorial could also be a small group led by a tutor, in which the tutor helps the whole group with math, history, or another topic.
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Instead, when I didn’t complete the tutorial, the algorithm canceled my classes.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Saroj said Gareth was resourceful and the "kind of clever that could fix a car after watching a 10-minute YouTube tutorial"
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
He arrived without a driver’s license, according to Christopher Simon Sykes’s biography of the artist, and barely passed the test after a skimpy tutorial on a friend’s pickup truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
I loved watching him fall in love with Eilish’s screen presence, especially that backstage beat when she gave Cameron a makeup tutorial of how to make her ice-blue eyes pop on camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
It was a history lesson and a chess tutorial, but mainly it was an amazing feat of memory.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
"We all went to the same lectures and we had the same labs, the same tutorials," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
One Gulf War veteran with a YouTube channel advertises “Secret Strategies for Winning Big with VA Disability Claims” and charges for “boot camp” tutorials to boost disability ratings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
There are plenty of free budgeting apps, free balance-sheet templates, free retirement calculators and free YouTube tutorials.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
Thirty-three seasons and 429 episodes of “The Joy of Painting” transformed his weekly art-hobby tutorials into a sales pitch for all kinds of products, including in-person classes.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
There were no tutorials here, no one losing sleep over the precise course of her intellectual development.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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