Main | About

Created by
www.noamnet.com
 

Definitions for notation:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Notation \No*ta"tion\, n. [L. notatio a marking, observing, etymology, fr. notare to mark, nota a mark: cf. F. notation. See 5th Note.] 1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. [1913 Webster] 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 arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations. [1913 Webster] 3. Literal or etymological signification. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] "Conscience" is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge. --South. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
notation n 1: a technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: notational system] 2: 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" [syn: note, annotation] 3: the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "notation": abstract, accent, accent mark, addition, adversaria, aide-memoire, alphabet, annotation, apparatus criticus, approximation, arrangement, art, bar, binary digit, bit, blueprint, cancel, character, charactering, characterization, characters, chart, chit, choreography, cipher, code, comment, commentary, commentation, conventional representation, copy, credit, custos, dance notation, debit, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, differentiation, digit, direct, division, docket, dot, double entry, draft, drama, drawing, edition, entry, equation, evolution, exegesis, exemplification, expression mark, extrapolation, fermata, figuration, figure, footnote, gloss, hieroglyphic, hold, hymnal, hymnbook, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, instrumental score, integration, interpolation, inversion, involution, item, jotting, key signature, lead, letter, libretto, ligature, limning, logogram, logograph, lute tablature, map, marginal note, marginalia, mark, measure, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, metronomic mark, minute, minutes, multiplication, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, note, note of explanation, number, numeral, numero, opera, opera score, orchestral score, part, pause, piano score, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, practice, prefigurement, presa, presentment, printing, projection, proportion, realization, record, reduction, register, registry, reminder, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, scholia, scholium, score, script, segno, sheet music, short score, sign, signature, signs, single entry, slur, songbook, songster, subtraction, swell, syllabary, symbol, symbolism, symbols, tablature, tempo mark, text, tie, time signature, transcript, transcription, transformation, version, vinculum, vocal score, word of explanation, writing, written music

Related Sites

Notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Notation for differentiation, common representations of the derivative in calculus. Big O notation, used for example in analysis to represent less significant ...

Notation Software, Inc. -- Software for everyday musicians
See, hear, and make music with Notation Software products. ... Music notation software for everyday musicians. Click on a picture to meet a musician...

Mathematical notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A mathematical notation is a system of symbolic representations of mathematical ... The notation uses symbols or symbolic expressions which are intended to have a ...

Mathematical Notation: Past and Future
So, where did all the mathematical notation that we use today come from? ... ended up pretty much just using words, not notation, to describe numbers that big. ...

scientific notation: Definition from Answers.com
scientific notation n. A method of writing or displaying numbers in terms of a decimal number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10 ... Normalized notation ...

musical notation: Information from Answers.com
musical notation (click to enlarge) Common symbols used in modern musical notation. (credit: © Merriam-Webster Inc.) Written, printed, or other visual

dictionary.noamnet.com