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[ad. L. notātiōn-em, n. of action, f. notāre to note. Hence also F. notation (14th c.), Sp. notacion, It. notazione, Pg. notação.]
†1. The explanation or exposition of a term in accordance with its etymology; the etymological or primary sense of a word. Obs. (common in 17th cent.).
1570J. Dee Math. Pref. b j, This Description, or Notation, is brief. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. vi. 35 b, As for conjugates and notation,..I dare not admit them into the text. 1609Downam Christ. Lib. 30 This..error they seeke to iustifie by the like notation of the Latine words. a1654Gataker Antid. Errour (1670) 7 If we respect the Notation or Original of the word Justifie, it should signifie to make just. 1690Andros Tracts II. 32 If we may Admit that Gentleman's Notation of a Libell (a Lie because False, and a Bell because Loud).
2. A note or annotation. Now rare.
1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 96 We may lett passe the sifting of these notations altogither vnworthie to be noted. 1685Boston Rec. (1881) VII. 175 Some articles..which wee have thought fit to leave some notations or memorandum with the Selectmen about. 1706J. Sergeant Chapter Bp. Chalcedon (1853) 122 Neither was there any room for inferences, or many notations. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 150 No other notation at all concerning any designer, engraver, or publisher whatever. 1822Galt Provost xxxv, Intending these notations for the instruction of posterity. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. i. (ed. 2) 3 The Sacred Volume has gathered up certain notations of this great study of our nature. 1929J. Gallishaw Twenty Probl. Fiction Writer 228 The wise writer depends upon recorded observations, and makes notations. 1932L. C. Douglas Forgive our Trespasses (1937) vii. 128 The papers submitted on Tuesday were, in the main, satisfactory. They would be returned, with notations, to their makers, at the close of the hour.
3. The action of taking or making note of something. rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iv. 13 Although there be no lesse then sixe, yet are there but two onely thereof worthy our notation. 1667Waterhouse Fire London 43 He..would not himself have set a foot this work..upon that day..But that the Notation of the day might lesson us displeasure extraordinary. 1866Crump Banking, etc. v. 113 A different operation from the ‘notation of protest’, as regards foreign bills of exchange.
†4. A mark or indication. Obs. rare—1.
a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. xxi. 81, I have endeavoured..to time eminent persons by one of these notations; first, that of their morning, or nativity [etc.].
5. The process or method of representing numbers, quantities, etc., by a set or system of signs; hence, any set of symbols or characters used to denote things or relations in order to facilitate the recording or considering of them.
a. Arith. and Algebra.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Notation... In Arithmetick, it is that part which shows how to express, read, or declare..any Number written. 1730Bailey (folio), Notation (with Algebraists), the representing quantities by Letters of the Alphabet. 1806Hutton Course Math. (ed. 2) I. 241 Avoiding the short ways of notation, which..are..less useful to the pupil. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Uses of Gt. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 276 The inventor of decimal notation. 1882Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 93 If (A) denotes the area traced out by A, and (X) the area of D, we have, with the previous notation [etc.].
b. Music.
1776Burney Hist. Mus. I. 7 As the notation of the Greeks was imagined in the infancy of the art of music. 1811Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., The literal notation for the lute is constantly called the Tablature. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms (1888) 309 The ecclesiastical notation of the Greek Church..is supposed to have originated in the Greek accents.
c. In miscellaneous uses.
1831Brewster Nat. Magic xi. (1833) 293 A system of mechanical notation invented by Mr. Babbage. 1837Whewell Induct. Sci. (1857) III. 185 The various methods of notation by which it has been proposed to represent the faces of crystals. 1855Abp. Thomson Laws Th. §101 A mode of notation to be able to represent to the eye by figures the relation which subsists in thought between conceptions. 1871Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 136 The system of chemical notation now in use among chemists belongs exclusively to modern times.
6. Logic. (See connotation 2, quot. 1829.) |