notation
See also: Notation
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
notation (countable and uncountable, plural notations)
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (uncountable) 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.
- 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
- Finally, using Devanagari, and native scripts more generally, has the benefit of elevating indigenous scripts and languages within the context of English-language lexicography, rather than foregrounding, or purely relying on, western linguistic notations which cater solely to a monolingual English audience.
- This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book. (Using notations would be incorrect).
- The notations used in the two books differed. (Using notation would be incorrect).
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- She made a notation in the margin of the book.
Derived terms edit
- abuse of notation
- algebraic notation
- big O notation
- Bow's notation
- bracket notation
- caret notation
- de Bruijn notation
- delta notation
- dental notation
- dot notation
- Einstein notation
- Hungarian notation
- infix notation
- k-adic notation
- Kendall's notation
- labanotation
- multilingual notation
- musical notation (or music notation)
- Polish notation
- positional notation
- postfix notation
- prefix notation
- reverse Polish notation
- Schläfli notation
- scientific notation
- set-builder notation
- sign-value notation
- siteswap notation
- square notation
- Stokoe notation
- Whyte notation
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Translations edit
act or process of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures or characters
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system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used to express technical facts or quantities
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specific note or piece of information written in such a notation
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Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin notātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
notation f (plural notations)
- rating (evaluation of status)
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Descendants edit
- → Polish: notacja
Further reading edit
- “notation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.