What is "designations"

Usage examples of "designations".

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

Also the designations of Biblical characters as "Lily of Israel, Rose of Sharon, Comfortress of the Afflicted, Help of Christians, Prince of the Apostles, Star of the Sea," etc.

After calling Zulthran Torv, the mathematician in charge of the Computer Office and giving him the Esaron time-line designations and Nentrov Dard's ideas about them, he spent about an hour briefing Kostran Galth on the role he was to play.

Nentrov suggested—each of the intervals between the designations is a very minute but very exact fraction of the difference between lesser designation and the base-line designation.

Other such designations were appended to the various systems connected with Home Hives One and Three.

After that, doors with numbers, and designations like Fire System and two more just with yellow caution tags and Key Only.

Lyell originally intended to employ “-synchronous” for his endings, giving us such crunchy designations as Meiosynchronous and Pleiosynchronous.

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 asClitoria, Fornicata, andVulva.

Robots, being metallic in exterior cladding and sexless in design--despite the “he” or “she” designations that their owners tended to hang on them--had no need for clothing, neither as protection against the elements nor as any sort of shield for modesty.

Though most people tended to call robots by nicknames based on their serial designations rather than by the serial designations themselves, it was rare for a robot to have a surname at all.

It is clear to myself that the "Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms" and the "Narrative of his Travels by Fa-hien" were designations of one and the same work, and that it is doubtful whether any larger work on the same subject was ever current.