Crossword clues for presentation
presentation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presentation \Pres`en*ta"tion\, n. [L. praesentatio a showing, representation: cf. F. pr['e]sentation.]
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The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
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Hence, exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.
Under the presentation of the shoots his wit.
--Shak. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation. [R.]
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(Eccl.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.
If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
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(Med.) The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation.
Presentation copy, a copy of a book, engraving, etc., presented to some one by the author or artist, as a token of regard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of presenting," from Old French presentacion (13c.), from Latin praesentationem (nominative praesentatio) "a placing before," noun of action from past participle stem of praesentare (see present (v.)). Meaning "that which is offered or presented" is mid-15c.; that of "a theatrical or other representation" is recorded from c.1600. Related: Presentational.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of presenting, or something presented 2 A dramatic performance 3 An award given to someone on a special occasion 4 A lecture or speech given in front of an audience 5 (context medicine English) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation." 6 (context medicine English) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth 7 (context fencing English) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent 8 (context mathematics English) The specification of a group by generators and relators. 9 The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
WordNet
n. the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward); "she gave the trophy but he made the presentation"
the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it; "he prepared his presentation carefully in advance"
a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration" [syn: presentment, demonstration]
the act of presenting a proposal
a visual representation of something [syn: display]
formally making a person known to another or to the public [syn: introduction, intro]
(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; "Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations"
Wikipedia
Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience.
Presentation may also refer to:
- Presentation program, computer software used to make presentations, such as Microsoft PowerPoint
- Presentation (software), an application used to create neurobehavioral experiments
- Corel Presentations, a slideshow, presentation and graphics editing software similar to PowerPoint
- Presentation of a group, in mathematics, a way to describe a group
- Presentation layer, in computer networking, the sixth level of the seven layer OSI model
- Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, in the Bible, when Jesus was brought to the temple forty days after his birth
- Presentation of Mary, an event recognized by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, mentioned in the Infancy Narrative of the Gospel of James
- Presentation Academy, a Catholic high-school in Louisville, Kentucky
- Presentation (obstetrics) in obstetrics
- Presentation of food, the aesthetics of the appearance of food
- Disease presentation referring to the initial symptoms or signs
- Right of presentation
- Lordosis behavior, a body posture adopted by some mammals during estrus that is commonly referred to as "presenting"
In obstetrics, the presentation of a fetus about to be born refers to which anatomical part of the fetus is leading, that is, is closest to the pelvic inlet of the birth canal. According to the leading part, this is identified as a cephalic, breech, or shoulder presentation. A malpresentation is any presentation other than a vertex presentation (with the top of the head first).
Presentation is a Windows software application for conducting psychological and neurobehavioral experiments, developed by Neurobehavioral Systems Inc. and first released in 2003. It supports auditory and visual stimuli creation and delivery, records responses from nearly any input device and allows control of parallel port, serial port, TCP/IP and Ni-DAQ for communication to and from fMRI devices, response devices, eye trackers and brain imaging equipment. It also supports Microsoft Kinect for Windows. It is temporally accurate to less than a millisecond, a crucial aspect of control for many research needs. Presentation has over 10,000 users worldwide. Presentation supports Unicode via the utf-8 specification.
Usage examples of "presentation".
Robert Jaedicke, the committee chairman, said during a presentation from accountants with Arthur Andersen.
Skilling said he would make the presentation himself, but asked Andersen to be there ready to answer any questions on the technical accounting issues.
In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.
Learning involves apperception, and apperception is always giving a meaning to new presentations by actively bringing old knowledge to bear upon them.
Reprints and anthology appearances of his stories have mounted into the hundreds and the presentations of his stories on radio and television is rapidly approaching the 100 mark.
The anthropological presentation of non-European others within this evolutionary theory of civilizations served to confirm and validate the eminent position of Europeans and thereby legitimate the colonialist project as a whole.
The presentation of the astrolabe, which he now repocketed, had been a fascinating diversion from which Sparta had learned nothing germane to her case.
When he was twenty-one years old his money was to come into his own hands, and the best thing he could do with it would be to buy the next presentation to a living, the rector of which was now old, and live on his mastership or tutorship till the living fell in.
David Morrison, Ken Vineberg, Raphael Kasper, Nicholas Boles, Steven Carlip, Arthur Greenspoon, David Mermin, Michael Popowits, and Shani Offen read the manuscript closely and offered detailed reactions and suggestions that greatly enhanced the presentation.
The monologuist Ruth Draper, 18841956, became quite famous in London for stage presentations in which she portrayed a great variety of personalities, ranging from a nagging wife to a peasant girl kneeling in a cathedral.
In pretrial motions, Minton had already asked and received permission from Judge Fullbright to use a PowerPoint presentation to illustrate the case to the jury.
A half a dozen or so of the well-known pros in the area showed up more or less regularly, an appearance by such as Harlan Ellison or Ray Bradbury would draw various of their more show bizzy pals, a presentation by Jerry Pournelle would attract space program types, and of course a story editor or production executive from any cartoon series, let alone a prime time sf series, would turn out every wannabee sf scriptwriter in town.
There was no process of law involved, nor did the proscribed man have the right to trial, presentation of exonerating evidence, or any kind of hearing to protest his innocence.
During this reign, the statute of provisors was enacted, rendering it penal to procure any presentations to benefices from the court of Rome, and securing the rights of all patrons and electors, which had been extremely encroached on by the pope.
Not only had she been scheduled that morning to deliver an important presentation to the Board of Directors of Memetic Solutions, but now the infuriating yet attractive Stingo Strine had shown up on her office doorstep.