Associations to the word «Notation»

Wiktionary

NOTATION, noun. (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
NOTATION, noun. (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.
NOTATION, noun. (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

Dictionary definition

NOTATION, noun. A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.
NOTATION, noun. 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".
NOTATION, noun. The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats