Definition of Representation. Meaning of Representation. Synonyms of Representation

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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...
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- differential geometry, an antifundamental representation of a Lie group is the complex conjugate of the fundamental representation, although the distinction between...
- "No taxation without representation" (often shortened to "taxation without representation") is a political slogan that originated in the American Revolution...
- Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of...
- In representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, a fundamental representation is an irreducible finite-dimensional representation of a semisimple...
- 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...
- Function Representation (FRep or F-Rep) is used in solid modeling, volume modeling and computer graphics. FRep was introduced in "Function representation in...
- In mathematics, a unitary representation of a group G is a linear representation π of G on a complex Hilbert space V such that π(g) is a unitary operator...