Definition of Notation. Meaning of Notation. Synonyms of Notation

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Definition of Notation

Notation
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.

Meaning of Notation from wikipedia

- Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely...
- Look up notation system in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics and semiotics, a notation system is a system of graphics or symbols, characters...
- Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity...
- Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered...
- Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, since to do so would require...
- differential calculus, there is no single uniform notation for differentiation. Instead, various notations for the derivative of a function or variable have...
- Hungarian notation is an identifier naming convention in computer programming in which the name of a variable or function indicates its intention or kind...
- Polish notation (RPN), also known as reverse Łukasiewicz notation, Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which...
- Polish notation (PN), also known as normal Polish notation (NPN), Łukasiewicz notation, Warsaw notation, Polish prefix notation or simply prefix notation, is...
- Positional notation, also known as place-value notation, positional numeral system, or simply place value, usually denotes the extension to any base of...