Hypertext Webster Gateway: "notation"
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) 1.7 (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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