Look up: notation

1. notation
   symbol or group of symbols representing a simple or compound concept. Notation may be used to sort and/or locate concepts in a pre-determined systematic order, and optionally to display how concepts have been structured and grouped. A notation can provide the link between alphabetical and systematic...
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2. notation
   [n] - a technical system of symbols used to represent special things 2. [n] - the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
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3. Notation
   Visual symbols used to write down music
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4. notation
   a note or annotation Category: Statistics • a set of symbols,and the rules for their use,for the representation of data Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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5. Notation
   No·ta'tion noun [ Latin notatio a marking, observing, etymology, from notare to mark, nota a mark: confer French notation . See 5th Note .] 1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or c...
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6. notation
   1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. ... 2. 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 arithmeti...
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7. notation
   notational system noun a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
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8. notation
   noun the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
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9. notation
   Unusual notation, hard to put in glossary for definition, is listed here: 2^A has a particular meaning. For a finite set A, the expression 2^A means 'the set of all subsets of A.'. If as is standard we denote the number of elements in set A by -A-, the number of elements in 2^{A
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10. Notation
    • (n.) Literal or etymological signification. • (n.) 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 expre...
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11. notation
    (from the article `formal logic`) ...used sentences and of deductive arguments. The discipline abstracts from the content of these elements the structures or logical forms that they ... A notation to express theorems about classes can be either defined in various ways (not detailed here) in terms of the primitives mentioned above or ......
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12. Notation
    The term notation can refer to: ==Written communication== ===Biology and Medicine=== ===Chemistry=== ===Computing=== ===Dance and movement=== ===Logic=== A variety of symbols are used to express logical ideas; see the List of logic symbols ===Mathematics=== ===Music=== ===Physics=== ===Typographica...
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13. notation
    notation: see arithmetic and musical notation.
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14. notation
    (music) System of signs and symbols for writing music, either for performers to read from, or to make a permanent record. Early systems of music notation were developed by the ancient Sumerians, by the Chinese in the 3rd century BC, and later by the ancient Greeks and Romans for their music dr...
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15. notation
    (dance) In dance, the codification and recording of dances by symbols. There are several dance notation systems; prominent among them is Labanotation
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16. Notation
    First developed in the 8th century, methods of writing music.
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