Definition of Documentation

1. Noun. Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence.

Exact synonyms: Certification, Corroboration
Generic synonyms: Confirmation
Derivative terms: Certify, Corroborate, Corroborate, Corroborate, Document

2. Noun. Program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs.

3. Noun. Documentary validation. "The strongest support for this view is the work of Jones"
Exact synonyms: Support
Generic synonyms: Proof, Substantiation, Validation
Derivative terms: Document, Support, Support

Definition of Documentation

1. Noun. Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea. ¹

2. Noun. (computing) Documents that explain the operation of a particular software program. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Documentation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Documentation

documentable
documental
documentalist
documentalists
documentarian
documentarians
documentaries
documentaries and factual films
documentarily
documentariness
documentarist
documentarists
documentary
documentary film
documentarylike
documentation (current term)
documentational
documentations
documentative
documented
documenter
documenters
documenting
documents
docus
docusate
docusate calcium
docusate sodium
docusoap
docusoaps

Literary usage of Documentation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991)
"Train crew has improper or inadequate hazardous materials documentation. §174.26(c). (Multiple violations) Failure to comply with retest and reinspection ..."

2. Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the edited by Charles E. Schamel (1997)
"The microfilm reproduces POW/MIA documentation sent to LC-FRD by the Central documentation Office of the Department of Defense and ..."

3. Trusted Network Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation (1994)
"documentation The section headings in these Part II documentation criteria are the same as those employed for Part I documentation criteria. ..."

4. Global War on Terrorism: Dod Needs to Improve the Reliability of Cost Data by Sharon L. Pickup, Gregory D. Kutz (2006)
"Without documentation, one cannot attest to the reliability and applicability of reported costs to GWOT. At one of the Marine Expeditionary Forces, ..."

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