Crossword clues for notation
notation
- Idea
- A technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- A comment (usually added to a text)
- System of signs or symbols
- System of musical symbols
- Symbols used to represent people binding books
- No place to overlook special symbols
- How to record e.g. dance movement? Thanks for putting in the idea
- Idea about army musicians’ method of writing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.
-
Literal or etymological signification. [Obs.]
``Conscience'' is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge.
--South.
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 note (v.)). Meaning "note, annotation" is from 1580s. Meaning "system of representing numbers or quantities by signs or symbols" is attested from 1706. Related: Notational.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters. 2 (context uncountable English) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities. 3 (context countable English) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
WordNet
n. a technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: notational system]
a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: note, annotation]
the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
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 of related symbols that are each given an arbitrary meaning, created to facilitate structured communication within a domain knowledge or field of study.
Standard notations refer to general agreements in the way things are written or denoted. The term is generally used in technical and scientific areas of study like mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, but can also be seen in areas like business, economics and music.
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.