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Definition of Documentation

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

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"

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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