Prescription

Prescription has various meanings.

Generally, a prescription is a statement that someone ought to do or not to do something.
A medical prescription is an order by a medical doctor to a pharmacist for a drug to be provided to the doctor's patient.
A eyeglass prescription is an order by an opthamologist to an optician for eyeglasses.
Under the civil law or civil code prescriptions are those periods during which rights and obligations are legally enforceable. Similar to the common law system concept of limitation periods.
In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules of the language.

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