notation
The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
Other meanings
A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
“This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book.”
A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
“She made a notation in the margin of the book.”
Related words
- abuse of notation
- algebraic notation
- big O notation
- Bow's notation
- Voigt notation
- bracket notation
- caret notation
- de Bruijn notation
- delta notation
- dental notation
- dot notation
- Einstein notation
Word history
From Latin "notātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “notation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.