NOTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notation mean? 

• NOTATION (noun)
  The noun NOTATION has 3 senses:

1. a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

2. a comment or instruction (usually added)

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

  Familiarity information: NOTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A technical system of symbols used to represent special things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

notation; notational system

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

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

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

mathematical notation (a notation used by mathematicians)

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

choreography (a notation used by choreographers)

chemical notation (a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry)

Derivation:

notate (put into notation, as of music or choreography)

Sense 2

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 ("notation" 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 "notation"):

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:

note (make a written note of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

committal to writing; writing (the activity of putting something in written form)

Derivation:

notate (put into notation, as of music or choreography)

 Context examples 

A ratio expressed in base 10 notation.

(Decimal Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

Design notes are notations made by NCI vocabulary curators.

(DesignNote, NCI Thesaurus)

A notation or direction at one place (as in a book or filing system) to pertinent information at another place.

(Cross-Reference, NCI Thesaurus)

A theoretical measure of the execution of an algorithm, usually the time or memory needed, given the problem size n, which is usually the number of items; a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions.

(Big-O Notation, NCI Thesaurus)

An extension to UML that provides constraint and object query expressions on an object-oriented model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation, providing expressions that have neither the ambiguities of natural language nor the inherent difficulty of using complex mathematics.

(Object Constraint Language, NCI Thesaurus)