notation

See also: Notation

English

Etymology

From Latin notātiō.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

notation (countable and uncountable, plural notations)

1. (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
2. (uncountable) 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.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:

     Finally, using Devanagari, and native scripts more generally, has the benefit of elevating indigenous scripts and languages within the context of English-language lexicography, rather than foregrounding, or purely relying on, western linguistic notations which cater solely to a monolingual English audience.

   This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book. (Using notations would be incorrect).

   The notations used in the two books differed. (Using notation would be incorrect).

3. (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

   She made a notation in the margin of the book.

Derived terms

• abuse of notation
• algebraic notation
• big O notation
• Bow's notation
• bracket notation
• caret notation
• de Bruijn notation
• delta notation
• dental notation
• dot notation
• Einstein notation
• Hungarian notation
• infix notation
• k-adic notation
• Kendall's notation
• labanotation
• mensural notation
• multilingual notation
• musical notation (or music notation)
• Polish notation
• positional notation
• postfix notation
• prefix notation
• reverse Polish notation
• Schläfli notation
• scientific notation
• set-builder notation
• sign-value notation
• siteswap notation
• square notation
• Stokoe notation
• Whyte notation

Related terms

• notate
• notational
• notationally
• notationless
• notative
• note
• unnotatable
• unnotated

 

Translations

act or process of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures or characters

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zápis (cs) m, notace f
• Finnish: notaatio (fi), merkintä (fi), nuotinnus (fi) (musical notation)
• German: Bezeichnung (de) f, Darstellung (de) f
• Greek: συμβολισμός (el) m (symvolismós), σημείωση (el) f (simeíosi)
• Hebrew: רישום (he) m (rishúm)
• Hungarian: jelölés (hu), lejegyzés (hu)
• Italian: notazione (it) f
• Japanese: 表記 (ja) (ひょうき, hyōki)
• Portuguese: notação (pt) f
• Romanian: notare (ro) f
• Russian: за́пись (ru) f (zápisʹ), запи́сывание (ru) n (zapísyvanije)
• Scottish Gaelic: comharrachadh m

system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used to express technical facts or quantities

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 記法／记法 (zh) (jìfǎ), 表示法 (biǎoshìfǎ)

• Czech: zápis (cs) m, notace f
• Dutch: notatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: simbolaro
• Finnish: notaatio (fi), merkintätapa (fi), merkintä (fi)
• German: Schreibweise (de) f, Bezeichnung (de) f, Bezeichnungen (de) pl, Notation (de) f, Darstellungsart f, Darstellung (de) f
• Greek: συμβολισμός (el) m (symvolismós), σημειογραφία (el) f (simeiografía) (music)
• Hebrew: רישום (he) m (rishúm), כתיב m (ktiv)
• Hungarian: jelölésmód (hu), jelrendszer (hu)
• Indonesian: notasi (id)
• Irish: nodaireacht (ga) f
• Italian: notazione (it) f
• Japanese: 表記 (ja) (ひょうき, hyōki), 記法 (ja) (きほう, kihō), 表記法 (ひょうきほう, hyōkihō)
• Maori: reo tohu
• Polish: notacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: notação (pt) f
• Romanian: notație (ro) f
• Russian: нота́ция (ru) f (notácija), систе́ма за́писи f (sistéma zápisi)
• Scottish Gaelic: comharrachadh m
• Tagalog: halat

specific note or piece of information written in such a notation

• Bulgarian: забележка (bg) f (zabeležka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 記號／记号 (zh) (jìhao), 注釋 (zh) (zhùshì)

• Finnish: notaatio (fi), merkintä (fi), huomautus (fi), nuotinnos (musical notation)
• German: Notiz (de) f, Vermerk (de) m, Anmerkung (de) f, Zusatz (de) m, Bemängelung f
• Greek: σημείωση (el) f (simeíosi), σχόλιο (el) n (schólio)
• Hebrew: רישום (he) m (rishúm), כתב (he) m (ktav)
• Hungarian: jel (hu), feljegyzés (hu)
• Indonesian: notasi (id)
• Italian: notazione (it) f
• Portuguese: anotação (pt) f
• Russian: за́пись (ru) f (zápisʹ), примеча́ние (ru) n (primečánije), замеча́ние (ru) n (zamečánije), ссы́лка (ru) f (ssýlka)
• Spanish: anotación f

Anagrams

• Ottonian, tonation

French

Etymology

From Latin notātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

notation f (plural notations)

1. rating (evaluation of status)

Related terms

• noter

Descendants

• → Polish: notacja

Further reading

• “notation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.