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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley