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Definition of Notation

1. Noun. A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.

2. Noun. A comment or instruction (usually added). "He added a short notation to the address on the envelope"

3. Noun. The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters.

Definition of Notation

1. n. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

Definition of Notation

1. Noun. The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters. ¹

2. Noun. A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities. ¹

3. Noun. A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Notation

1. a system of symbols [n -S]

Medical Definition of Notation

1. 1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations. 3. Literal or etymological signification. ""Conscience" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge." (South) Origin: L. Notatio a marking, observing, etymology, fr. Notare to mark, nota a mark: cf. F. Notation. See 5th Note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notation

notarising notarization notarizations notarize notarized notarizes notarizing notary notary public notate

notate bene notated notates notatin notating notation (current term) notational notational system notationally notationless

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Literary usage of Notation

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

1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"But it is not only the complexity of the later systems of shelf-notation that ... The fundamental defect in all systems of shelf-notation at present in ..."

2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"The first and most obvious advantage of a phonetic notation is that the learner who has once mastered the elementary sounds of the language, together with ..."

3. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"THE object of this paper is to propose a notation by means of which the analysis of series may be facilitated, and to suggest a few modifications in the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"One of the first results of the differential notation of Leibnitz was the recognition of the analogy between -,- the symbol of differentiation and the ..."

5. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"THE AUTHOR'S notation. NO. I. LINEAR. The notation previously spoken of1 represents every various syllogism in all the accident) of its external form ..."

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