notation

See also: Notation

English

Etymology

From Latin notātiō, equivalent to notate +‎ -ion or note +‎ -ation.

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, countable) 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.

   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.)

   • 2010 March, Sander Arts, “COMPETITIVE PLAY IN STRATEGO”, in Maastricht University‎^[1], page 6:

     There is no official notation in the game of Stratego. Several notations are available but rely on perfect information of the initial piece set-up of both players. We will use a chess-like notation for Stratego.

   • 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.

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
• Dirac notation
• dot notation
• Einstein notation
• Hungarian notation
• infix notation
• k-adic notation
• Kendall 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
• Voigt notation
• Whyte notation
• Yoda 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)
• Māori: 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
• Thai: สัญกรณ์ (th)

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 / 注释 (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

Learned borrowing from Latin notātiō. By surface analysis, noter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

notation f (plural notations)

1. rating (evaluation of status)

Descendants

• → Polish: notacja

Further reading

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