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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
designation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
official
▪ It has never been seen again, though it has been given an official variable star designation: T Bootis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Erik's official designation is Senior Developmental Director.
▪ Lott opposed the designation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although the names of these principles have been variously translated, I shall rely on my own designations in explaining them.
▪ But there are others who vehemently oppose changing the general plan designation in either area.
▪ Countries around the world limit the liability of investors and signal this special favor with certain abbreviations and designations.
▪ Hill people, what a charming designation in which to frame our industrious little community.
▪ Model designation is truly a topic for mind-readers.
▪ There has been no serious conflict about the designation of land for particular uses.
▪ These include the ability to acquire land at values that take an account of development gain arising from their designation and activities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Designation

Designation \Des`ig*na"tion\, n. [L. designatio: cf. F. d['e]signation.]

  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

  2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

  3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.

    The usual designation of the days of the week.
    --Whewell.

  4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

    Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things which have parts.
    --Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
designation

late 14c., "action of pointing out," from Old French designacion or directly from Latin designationem (nominative designatio) "a marking out, specification," noun of action from past participle stem of designare (see design (v.)). Meaning "descriptive name" is from 1824.

Wiktionary
designation

n. 1 The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2 Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3 That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. 4 Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

WordNet
designation
  1. n. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: appellation, denomination, appellative]

  2. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, assignment, naming]

  3. the act of designating or identifying something [syn: identification]

Wikipedia
Designation

Designation may refer to:

  • Professional certification
  • Designation (landmarks), an official classification determined by a government agency or historical society
  • Designation Scheme, a system for recognising library and museum collections in England
Designation (heritage assets)

Designation is the act of setting aside something, or devoting it to a particular purpose. In the legal planning context, it is also “the action of choosing a place for a special purpose or giving it a special status”.

The process of designation confers a legal status on a property by a specific law and provides a degree of legal protection (which varies by country). The term ‘designation’ is used when referring to the formal protection by legal statute for a wide range of heritage assets, including listed buildings and World Heritage Sites as well as many others.

The UK Government publication Planning Policy Statement 5: (Planning for the Historic Environment) states that a designated heritage asset can be: a World Heritage Site, scheduled monument, listed building, protected wreck site, registered park and garden, registered battlefield or conservation area.

Each type of heritage asset is designated as such using different legislation.

Usage examples of "designation".

This designation was used by the representatives of the Adoptian Christology only after they had expressed their doctrine antithetically and developed it to a theory, and always with a certain reservation.

Two of the many nations found among them are the Triballi, once so named, and the Dardani, who have the same designation at present.

Thus, Gutshot is the designation of both the planet and the colony surrounding the port, while End of Nothing means both the settlement and planet, as you choose.

But the name Kalmuk, I learned, is not a national or tribal designation.

And long and heartily did Dick Varley laugh as he told the horse his future designation in the presence of Crusoe, for it struck him as somewhat ludicrous that a mustang which, two days ago, pawed the earth in all the pride of independent freedom, should suddenly come down so low as to carry a hunter on his back and be named Charlie.

As at all airports, the designation was in large white characters on the runway surface.

WAS ASSIGNED INMATE NUMBER 95-A6514, the numerical designation he will carry with him for the rest of his natural life, when he arrived at the Attica Correctional Facility in February 1996.

Lord 1, began the practice of conferring honourary designations on Confucius by imperial authority.

He woke, the list of time line designations in his hand, when the conveyor rematerialized on Home Time Line.

Robot City were reprogrammed through the central core, but their identities and designations were not changed.

Collins said the county has no figures for how many voters were able to successfully appeal their designation as felons.

At all events, it had long been felt that the natural sciences would be appreciably dignified by a dose of classical renaming, so there was a certain dismay in discovering that the self-appointed Prince of Botany had sprinkled his texts with such designations as Clitoria, Fornicata, and Vulva.

Engineering designs based on their equations resulted in the construction of the first Caplis generator, variations of which power all interstellar vessels by accelerating them to speeds that allow them to slip into the fifth dimension, more commonly known today by its colloquial designation, space-plus.

On the floor at his feet, where he had let it fall, lay the latest issue of The Compeer, whose lead article announced the Constitutional Congress's designation of Whiss Valeur as acting Protector of the Republic.

But not only is the designation of spolia opima restricted to those which a commander-in-chief has taken from a commander-in-chief - and we know of no commander-in-chief but the one under whose auspices the war is conducted - but I and my authorities are also confuted by the actual inscription on the spoils, which states that Cossus took them when he was consul.