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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. 3. Literal or etymological signification. [Obs.] ``Conscience'' is a Latin word and according to the very notation of it imports a double or joint knowledge. --South. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: notation n 1: a technical system of symbols used to represent special things [syn: {notational system}] 2: a comment (usually added to a text); "his notes were appended at the end of the article" [syn: {note}, {annotation}]
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