notationn.

Brit.

/nə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, U.S.

/noʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s notacion, 1500s– notation.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin notātiōn-, notātiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin notātiōn-, notātiō the explanation of a term on the basis of its etymology, the making of a mental note, observation, a letter or symbol representing a word, in post-classical Latin also musical notation (15th cent. in British sources) < notāt- , past participial stem of notāre note v.² + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish notación (1490 in sense 3), Italian notazione (a1547 in sense 3; early 14th cent. as notasone ), Portuguese notação (17th cent. in sense 3).Cicero uses classical Latin notātiō in sense 2 to translate ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία etymology n.

†1. Rhetoric. A form of periphrasis in which a quality or thing is described in terms of its distinctive characteristics. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution

circumlocution?1518

ambage1532

periphrasis1533

circuition1542

circuit1552

notation1555

compassing1580

periphrase1589

ambush1601

encompassment1604

circumambulation1606

circling1623

perambulationa1652

roundaboutness1810

roundaboutation1812

ambagiosity1819

circumambulating1837

peripherization1926

1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. xxv Notacion, that is, when by certain markes, and signes we do describe any thing: as, if a man vnderstandyng anger, wil saye it is the boylyng of the minde.

†2. The explanation of a term on the basis of its etymology; the etymological or primary sense of a word. Obsolete.Common in the 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > literal or primary

grammatical sensea1530

notation1570

grammatical meaning1769

the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > statement or account of

notation1570

etymology1575

derivationa1599

origination1614

derival1871

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj This Description, or Notation, is brief.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. vi. f. 35^v As for conjugates and notation,..I dare not admit them into the text.

1609 G. Downame Treat. Christian Libertie 30 This..error they seeke to iustifie by the like notation of the Latine words.

a1654 T. Gataker Antidote Errour (1670) 7 If we respect the Notation or Original of the word Justifie, it should signifie to make just.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. xvii. 69 Of Canons belonging to Consentaneous Places, or Places from whence Arguments are drawn... And first of those belonging to the Place of Notation or Etymology; and this has two Canons.

3. A note, an annotation.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes

remembrancec1380

scrow1426

memoranda1450

memorialc1450

memorandumc1490

memoir1494

ticket1528

note1548

pamphil1571

notation1587

ricordo1617

notandum1645

bulletin1651

memo1705

remark1788

mem.1813

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note

comment1509

annotation1528

note1532

scholium1535

scholy1535

adversaria1571

commentation1579

scholion1579

notation1587

paraphrase1615

remark1629

notelet1834

adscript1889

1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Niv^v We may lett passe the sifting of these notations altogither vnworthie to be noted.

1602 F. Marbury Serm. preached at Paules Crosse sig. A 8^v The holy Scriptures are found to haue a great felicitie in these notations & agnominatiōs in their original.

1685 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 175 Some articles..which wee have thought fit to leave some notations or memorandum with the Selectmen about.

1706 J. Sergeant Acct. Chapter Bp. Chalcedon (1853) 122 Neither was there any room for inferences, or many notations.

1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 150 No other notation at all concerning any designer, engraver, or publisher whatever.

1822 J. Galt Provost xxxv. 254 Intending these notations for the instruction of posterity.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. i. 3 The Sacred Volume has gathered up certain notations of this great study of our nature.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 707 Unserviceable ticket; this is made out in the same manner, and requires the same notations, as a sick-ticket.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xxvi. 365 The officer..examined all three specimens carefully, making notations meanwhile upon a pad of paper.

1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses 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.

1988 M. Dibdin Ratking iii. 66 The two heads..immediately bent over their respective piles of papers, covered with almost illegible notations.

4. The action of recording or making note of something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes > making notes

notinga1427

notation1646

notating1956

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 13 Although there be no lesse then sixe, yet are there but two onely thereof worthy our notation .

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. 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.

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking v. 113 A different operation from the ‘notation of protest’, as regards foreign bills of exchange.

1994 Chapman No. 77. 77 (title) The notation of a dream recounted by Connie Renton to her granddaughters.

†5. A mark or indication. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign

tokeningc888

fingereOE

senyeOE

markOE

showing?c1225

blossomc1230

signa1325

signifyingc1384

evidencea1393

notea1398

forbysena1400

kenninga1400

knowinga1400

showerc1400

unningc1400

signala1413

signification?a1425

demonstrancec1425

cenyc1440

likelinessc1450

ensign1474

signifure?a1475

outshowinga1500

significativea1500

witter1513

precedent1518

intimation1531

signifier1532

meith1533

monument1536

indicion?1541

likelihood1541

significator1554

manifest1561

show1561

evidency1570

token-teller1574

betokener1587

calendar1590

instance1590

testificate1590

significant1598

crisis1606

index1607

impression1613

denotementa1616

story1620

remark1624

indicium1625

denotation1633

indice1636

signum1643

indiction1653

trace1656

demonstrator1657

indication1660

notationa1661

significatory1660

indicator1666

betrayer1678

demonstration1684

smell1691

wittering1781

notaa1790

blazonry1850

sign vehicle1909

marker1919

rumble1927

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 59 I have endevoured..to Time Eminent Persons by one of these Notations, First, that of their Morning or Nativity [etc.].

6. The process or method of representing numbers, quantities, relations, etc., by a set or system of signs or symbols, for the purpose of record or analysis; (hence) any such system of signs or symbols.

(a) In mathematics.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun]

notation1706

decimal system1786

scientific notation1824

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Notation... In Arithmetick, it is that part which shows how to express, read, or declare..any Number written.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Notation (with Algebraists), the representing quantities by Letters of the Alphabet.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 2) I. 241 Avoiding the short ways of notation, which..are..less useful to the pupil.

1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 14 The inventor of decimal notation.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 619/1 These works possess considerable originality, and contain many new improvements in algebraic notation.

1989 R. Penrose Emperor's New Mind vi. 257 It will be convenient to adopt a notation..according to which the..state vectors—are denoted by some symbol in an angle bracket.

(b) In music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun]

marking1597

notation1776

breathing mark1863

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 7 As the notation of the Greeks was imagined in the infancy of the art of music.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) The literal notation for the lute is constantly called the Tablature.

1848 J. Curwen Singing Introd. p. xx Thus is..singing made almost a hopeless thing by the stereotype faults of the Old Notation.

1888 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (ed. 3) 309 The ecclesiastical notation of the Greek Church..is supposed to have originated in the Greek accents.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 171/2 Music, of which a transcript in modern notation with the original score, is given in Coussemaker's edition.

1942 W. Apel Notation Polyphonic Mus., 900–1600 (1944) iii. iii. 234 In modal notation, the plica appears preferably in connection with ligatures.

1996 Times 31 Jan. 33/2 Musical notation is an immensely complex language.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > study or description > [noun] > notation

chorography1710

choreography1782

notation1845

Laban1928

Labanotation1953

1845 Encycl. Metropol. XVI. 621/1 Choregraphy, the art of expressing the movements of a dance by notation.

1911 Western Jrnl. Educ. 4 332 Special instructions and a detailed notation for the eleven [morris] dances completes the book.

1919 R. Mitchell Shakespeare for Community Players 142 A series of country dances, with music and dance notation, is now issued in separate leaflet form.

1931 C. W. Beaumont Fr.-Eng. Dict. Ballet 7 Chorégraphie... In the 18th century the art of dance notation was called choreography.

1977 I. Woodward Ballet i. iii. 29 Ever since Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro in 1463 wrote down some basse danses by using letters and curious symbols, men have searched continuously for a simple, reliable method of dance notation.

1998 Dancing Times May 711/1 Your readers will be pleased to know that a Banesh Movement Notation score exists of virtually the whole ballet.

b. In other disciplines, as chemistry, logic, chess, linguistics, etc.In quot. 1819: an individual sign or symbol.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > collectively

charactery1593

symbolism1653

notation1819

symbol1856

1819 T. Jefferson Let. 22 Sept. (1984) 1429 I could not believe that the ancient Greeks had provided six different notations for the simple sound of i, iota.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xv. v. 217 The various methods of notation by which it has been proposed to represent the faces of crystals.

1871 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 136 The system of chemical notation now in use among chemists belongs exclusively to modern times.

1933 L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic (rev. ed.) i. viii. 125 The superiority of Leibniz's notation to Newton's is now admitted by everyone.

1963 E. T. Hall in Amer. Anthropologist 65 1003 (title) A system for the notation of proxemic behavior.

1969 Jrnl. Pediatrics 74 926/2 In this notation for fatty acid structure, 24:0, for example, represents a fully saturated fatty acid.

1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct iv. 98 In the standard notation of linguistics, an arrow means ‘consists of’.

†7. Logic. A sensation as the immediate referent of a word. Cf. connotation n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun]

to owe a wolda1325

meaninga1387

significationa1398

understanding1433

pretensionc1443

intellect?a1475

tendment1519

sense1530

reciprocation1604

sensing1613

denotation1614

apprehension1615

explicitness1630

sounda1631

notion1646

bodementa1657

means1656

force1709

notation1829

connotation1865

content1875

territory1875

1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. ix. 219 I shall find much convenience in using the term notation to point out the sensation or sensations which are peculiarly marked by such words, the term connotation to point out the clusters which they mark along with this their principal meaning.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	notation
释义	notationn. Brit. /nə(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /noʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s notacion, 1500s– notation. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin notātiōn-, notātiō. Etymology: < classical Latin notātiōn-, notātiō the explanation of a term on the basis of its etymology, the making of a mental note, observation, a letter or symbol representing a word, in post-classical Latin also musical notation (15th cent. in British sources) < notāt- , past participial stem of notāre note v.² + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish notación (1490 in sense 3), Italian notazione (a1547 in sense 3; early 14th cent. as notasone ), Portuguese notação (17th cent. in sense 3).Cicero uses classical Latin notātiō in sense 2 to translate ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία etymology n. †1. Rhetoric. A form of periphrasis in which a quality or thing is described in terms of its distinctive characteristics. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution circumlocution?1518 ambage1532 periphrasis1533 circuition1542 circuit1552 notation1555 compassing1580 periphrase1589 ambush1601 encompassment1604 circumambulation1606 circling1623 perambulationa1652 roundaboutness1810 roundaboutation1812 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 peripherization1926 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. xxv Notacion, that is, when by certain markes, and signes we do describe any thing: as, if a man vnderstandyng anger, wil saye it is the boylyng of the minde. †2. The explanation of a term on the basis of its etymology; the etymological or primary sense of a word. Obsolete.Common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > literal or primary grammatical sensea1530 notation1570 grammatical meaning1769 the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > statement or account of notation1570 etymology1575 derivationa1599 origination1614 derival1871 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj This Description, or Notation, is brief. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. vi. f. 35^v As for conjugates and notation,..I dare not admit them into the text. 1609 G. Downame Treat. Christian Libertie 30 This..error they seeke to iustifie by the like notation of the Latine words. a1654 T. Gataker Antidote Errour (1670) 7 If we respect the Notation or Original of the word Justifie, it should signifie to make just. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. xvii. 69 Of Canons belonging to Consentaneous Places, or Places from whence Arguments are drawn... And first of those belonging to the Place of Notation or Etymology; and this has two Canons. 3. A note, an annotation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes remembrancec1380 scrow1426 memoranda1450 memorialc1450 memorandumc1490 memoir1494 ticket1528 note1548 pamphil1571 notation1587 ricordo1617 notandum1645 bulletin1651 memo1705 remark1788 mem.1813 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > comment or note comment1509 annotation1528 note1532 scholium1535 scholy1535 adversaria1571 commentation1579 scholion1579 notation1587 paraphrase1615 remark1629 notelet1834 adscript1889 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Niv^v We may lett passe the sifting of these notations altogither vnworthie to be noted. 1602 F. Marbury Serm. preached at Paules Crosse sig. A 8^v The holy Scriptures are found to haue a great felicitie in these notations & agnominatiōs in their original. 1685 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 175 Some articles..which wee have thought fit to leave some notations or memorandum with the Selectmen about. 1706 J. Sergeant Acct. Chapter Bp. Chalcedon (1853) 122 Neither was there any room for inferences, or many notations. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 150 No other notation at all concerning any designer, engraver, or publisher whatever. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxv. 254 Intending these notations for the instruction of posterity. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. i. 3 The Sacred Volume has gathered up certain notations of this great study of our nature. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 707 Unserviceable ticket; this is made out in the same manner, and requires the same notations, as a sick-ticket. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xxvi. 365 The officer..examined all three specimens carefully, making notations meanwhile upon a pad of paper. 1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses 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. 1988 M. Dibdin Ratking iii. 66 The two heads..immediately bent over their respective piles of papers, covered with almost illegible notations. 4. The action of recording or making note of something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > notes > making notes notinga1427 notation1646 notating1956 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 13 Although there be no lesse then sixe, yet are there but two onely thereof worthy our notation . View more context for this quotation 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. 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. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking v. 113 A different operation from the ‘notation of protest’, as regards foreign bills of exchange. 1994 Chapman No. 77. 77 (title) The notation of a dream recounted by Connie Renton to her granddaughters. †5. A mark or indication. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign tokeningc888 fingereOE senyeOE markOE showing?c1225 blossomc1230 signa1325 signifyingc1384 evidencea1393 notea1398 forbysena1400 kenninga1400 knowinga1400 showerc1400 unningc1400 signala1413 signification?a1425 demonstrancec1425 cenyc1440 likelinessc1450 ensign1474 signifure?a1475 outshowinga1500 significativea1500 witter1513 precedent1518 intimation1531 signifier1532 meith1533 monument1536 indicion?1541 likelihood1541 significator1554 manifest1561 show1561 evidency1570 token-teller1574 betokener1587 calendar1590 instance1590 testificate1590 significant1598 crisis1606 index1607 impression1613 denotementa1616 story1620 remark1624 indicium1625 denotation1633 indice1636 signum1643 indiction1653 trace1656 demonstrator1657 indication1660 notationa1661 significatory1660 indicator1666 betrayer1678 demonstration1684 smell1691 wittering1781 notaa1790 blazonry1850 sign vehicle1909 marker1919 rumble1927 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 59 I have endevoured..to Time Eminent Persons by one of these Notations, First, that of their Morning or Nativity [etc.]. 6. The process or method of representing numbers, quantities, relations, etc., by a set or system of signs or symbols, for the purpose of record or analysis; (hence) any such system of signs or symbols. a. (a) In mathematics. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] notation1706 decimal system1786 scientific notation1824 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Notation... In Arithmetick, it is that part which shows how to express, read, or declare..any Number written. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Notation (with Algebraists), the representing quantities by Letters of the Alphabet. 1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 2) I. 241 Avoiding the short ways of notation, which..are..less useful to the pupil. 1850 R. W. Emerson Uses of Great Men in Representative Men i. 14 The inventor of decimal notation. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 619/1 These works possess considerable originality, and contain many new improvements in algebraic notation. 1989 R. Penrose Emperor's New Mind vi. 257 It will be convenient to adopt a notation..according to which the..state vectors—are denoted by some symbol in an angle bracket. (b) In music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] marking1597 notation1776 breathing mark1863 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 7 As the notation of the Greeks was imagined in the infancy of the art of music. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) The literal notation for the lute is constantly called the Tablature. 1848 J. Curwen Singing Introd. p. xx Thus is..singing made almost a hopeless thing by the stereotype faults of the Old Notation. 1888 J. Stainer Stainer & Barrett's Dict. Musical Terms (ed. 3) 309 The ecclesiastical notation of the Greek Church..is supposed to have originated in the Greek accents. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 171/2 Music, of which a transcript in modern notation with the original score, is given in Coussemaker's edition. 1942 W. Apel Notation Polyphonic Mus., 900–1600 (1944) iii. iii. 234 In modal notation, the plica appears preferably in connection with ligatures. 1996 Times 31 Jan. 33/2 Musical notation is an immensely complex language. (c) More fully dance notation. In choreography. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > study or description > [noun] > notation chorography1710 choreography1782 notation1845 Laban1928 Labanotation1953 1845 Encycl. Metropol. XVI. 621/1 Choregraphy, the art of expressing the movements of a dance by notation. 1911 Western Jrnl. Educ. 4 332 Special instructions and a detailed notation for the eleven [morris] dances completes the book. 1919 R. Mitchell Shakespeare for Community Players 142 A series of country dances, with music and dance notation, is now issued in separate leaflet form. 1931 C. W. Beaumont Fr.-Eng. Dict. Ballet 7 Chorégraphie... In the 18th century the art of dance notation was called choreography. 1977 I. Woodward Ballet i. iii. 29 Ever since Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro in 1463 wrote down some basse danses by using letters and curious symbols, men have searched continuously for a simple, reliable method of dance notation. 1998 Dancing Times May 711/1 Your readers will be pleased to know that a Banesh Movement Notation score exists of virtually the whole ballet. b. In other disciplines, as chemistry, logic, chess, linguistics, etc.In quot. 1819: an individual sign or symbol. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > collectively charactery1593 symbolism1653 notation1819 symbol1856 1819 T. Jefferson Let. 22 Sept. (1984) 1429 I could not believe that the ancient Greeks had provided six different notations for the simple sound of i, iota. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. xv. v. 217 The various methods of notation by which it has been proposed to represent the faces of crystals. 1871 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 136 The system of chemical notation now in use among chemists belongs exclusively to modern times. 1933 L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic (rev. ed.) i. viii. 125 The superiority of Leibniz's notation to Newton's is now admitted by everyone. 1963 E. T. Hall in Amer. Anthropologist 65 1003 (title) A system for the notation of proxemic behavior. 1969 Jrnl. Pediatrics 74 926/2 In this notation for fatty acid structure, 24:0, for example, represents a fully saturated fatty acid. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct iv. 98 In the standard notation of linguistics, an arrow means ‘consists of’. †7. Logic. A sensation as the immediate referent of a word. Cf. connotation n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] to owe a wolda1325 meaninga1387 significationa1398 understanding1433 pretensionc1443 intellect?a1475 tendment1519 sense1530 reciprocation1604 sensing1613 denotation1614 apprehension1615 explicitness1630 sounda1631 notion1646 bodementa1657 means1656 force1709 notation1829 connotation1865 content1875 territory1875 1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. ix. 219 I shall find much convenience in using the term notation to point out the sensation or sensations which are peculiarly marked by such words, the term connotation to point out the clusters which they mark along with this their principal meaning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1555
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