ANNOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does annotation mean? 

• ANNOTATION (noun)
  The noun ANNOTATION has 2 senses:

1. a comment or instruction (usually added)

2. the act of adding notes

  Familiarity information: ANNOTATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANNOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A comment or instruction (usually added)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

annotation; notation; note

Context example:

he added a short notation to the address on the envelope

Hypernyms ("annotation" is a kind of...):

comment; commentary (a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annotation"):

poste restante (a notation written on mail that is to be held at the post office until called for (not in the United States or Canada))

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage)

footer; footnote (a printed note placed below the text on a printed page)

N.B.; NB; nota bene (a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something)

postscript; PS (a note appended to a letter after the signature)

Derivation:

annotate (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of adding notes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

annotating; annotation

Hypernyms ("annotation" is a kind of...):

expanding upon; expansion (adding information or detail)

Derivation:

annotate (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

 Context examples 

Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.

(Ensembl, NCI Thesaurus)

Computer-processable annotations within a multimedia document.

(Markup, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Annotation used to indicate the size or magnitude of something that was determined by comparison to a standard.

(Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The long term goal of the project is full annotation of eukaryotic genomes through a thorough validation of expressed proteins.

(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)

Attributes from a data source that provide meaning that is relevant for annotation.

(Data Context, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of annotations, or comments about an idea, subject or item.

(Annotation Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Defines the type of annotation (e.g., direct, mapped, transitive closure).

(Annotation Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The AI learned using pathology images without diagnostic annotation from 11 million image patches.

(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

GenBank records are annotated using a standard set of biological terms and show these annotations in a Feature Table.

(GenBank, NCI Thesaurus)

Abstract class that allows subclasses to inherit the association to Description, for detailed annotations such as Ontology entries and Database references, the association to Audit, for tracking changes, and the association to Security for indicating permissions.

(Describable Class, NCI Thesaurus)