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noˈtational, a.
[f. notation + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by notation (esp. in Logic).
1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. X. 736 All [early numerals] seem to have been once used without notational place, that is without the zero. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 293 Introducing ‘classes’ as merely a notational device. 1964P. K. Bock in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 217 The structural description of any one situation occurring in a human community must, necessarily, refer to other situations; therefore, a notational system was devised to facilitate cross-referencing. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 145 A certain amount of facility in handling symbols and practice in manipulating the notational conventions is all that is needed. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic xxxvi. 249 We can..reduce the welter of bracketing..by the following notational convention. 1965Language XLI. 485 Using the same notational devices as before. 1970J. D. McCawley in P. L. Garvin Cognition x. 231 A system of semantic representation that is along the lines of the notational systems used in symbolic logic. 1973J. Hintikka Logic, Language-Games & Information xi. 252 A formula which is like one of the constituents or a-constituents we have defined..will be called its notational variant. We shall call two constituents or a-constituents different only if they are not notational variants of each other.
b. spec. Of or pertaining to musical notation.
1925P. A. Scholes Second Bk. Gramophone Record 162 Under the notational description of 6/8 we get sometimes two groups in a bar, sometimes three groups.
Hence noˈtationally adv.
1896Musical Herald 1 Feb. 43/1 With regard to ba, Mr. McNaught admitted that, notationally, there was something to be said in favour of abolishing the name, but, educationally, it was better to keep it. 1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic 33 A mode which consists notationally of compounding the statements by means of ‘implies’ and the two pairs of quotation marks. |