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Word definitions for notation in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE binary ▪ This feature could be eliminated, if desired, by arranging that n be expressed in expanded binary notation . ■ VERB make ▪ I had made notations by the Cicero Club stories. ▪ Left-handed, he makes business ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics and semiotics , a notation is a system of graphics or symbols , characters and abbreviated expressions , used in artistic and scientific disciplines to represent technical facts and quantities by convention . Therefore, a notation is a collection ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Notation \No*ta"tion\, n. [L. notatio a marking, observing, etymology, fr. notare to mark, nota a mark: cf. F. notation. See 5th Note .] The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. Any particular system of characters, symbols, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "explanation of a term," from Middle French notation and directly from Latin notationem (nominative notatio ) "a marking, notation, designation; etymology; shorthand; explanation," noun of action from past participle stem of notare "to note" (see ...
Usage examples of notation.
The universe suffered itself to be arranged into abstractions manipulable by dyadic notation with its implicit duality.
Khadgar thought of old Korrigan, who could find anything in the library, even the smallest marginal notation.
F, C, and G, which were written at first by Guido and others to make the old neume notation more definite.
The padd held notations from Data regarding the current fluctuation and reaction rate of the Ntignano sun .
Already, the younger rememberer had discovered a notation in one of the Earth encyclopedias obtained from human merchantsa reference to a disease called cholera that spread easily from human to human when they lived in close quarters.
Since reunification, New Englanders and Canadian annexees were theoretically entitled to full citizenship with all its rights, but there was always that coded notation in their passbooks.
And Dan Pritchard, wondering, knelt beside Sooey Wan and counted long and in silence, making many notations on a piece of paper.
One was a notation 130 about a penicillin allergy, which did not seem significant.
Nevertheless, he was correct in thinking that our voluntary imposition of a meaningless notation upon an object apprehended is the way in which at least some words must acquire their meaning.
But I think I can provide meaningful sounds for our notation, which means all we have to do is come up with a metalogical language.
Flicking through, he noticed the notations in the margin, the tiny, beautifully drawn pictograms in red and black and green.
One was the Klein-Nishina scattering formula, and the other was an old equation for something called an Emden polytrope, in an odd notation.
He outlined four single-note signs in music notation the double long, the long, the breve and the semibreve, which were exact multiples of each other.
The notation was made still more uncertain by the license of the breve in triple time being equal to three semibreves, and so in general each long note in triple measure being equal to three of the next class shorter.
I would always work in my corresponding synesthetic colors and then transpose the work, scoring it in normal musical notation.