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Definition of REPRESENTATION

Representation
Representation Rep`re*sen*ta"tion (-z?n-t?"sh?n), n. [F. repr?sentation, L. representatio.] 1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced. 3. The state of being represented. Syn: Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.

Meaning of REPRESENTATION from wikipedia

- Look up representation or represent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Representation may refer to: Representation (politics), political activities undertaken...
- Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body...
- Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of...
- In mathematics, the Gelfand representation in functional analysis (named after I. M. Gelfand) is either of two things: a way of representing commutative...
- differential geometry, an antifundamental representation of a Lie group is the complex conjugate of the fundamental representation, although the distinction between...
- The concept of virtual representation was that the members of the UK Parliament, including the Lords and the Crown-in-Parliament, reserved the right to...
- "No taxation without representation" (often shortened to "taxation without representation") is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution...
- In the field of representation theory in mathematics, a projective representation of a group G on a vector space V over a field F is a group homomorphism...
- Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest...
- Newsom. She is the director, writer, and producer of the film Miss Representation (2011), which premiered in the do****entary competition at the Sundance...