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Meaning of REPRESENTATION

Pronunciation:  `repreezen'teyshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
  2. [n]  the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
  3. [n]  creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
  4. [n]  the right of being representated by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
  5. [n]  a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
  6. [n]  a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting; "certain representations were made concerning police brutality"
  7. [n]  a performance of play
  8. [n]  a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract; "the sales contract contains several representations by the vendor"
  9. [n]  a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency; "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California"
  10. [n]  the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
 
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 Synonyms: agency, delegacy, histrionics, internal representation, mental representation, theatrical, theatrical performance
 
 See Also: abstractionism, activity, adumbration, antitype, appearance, audiogram, blur, body, cognitive content, concrete representation, concretism, content, convergence, cooperation, copy, cosmography, creation, creche, cutaway, cutaway drawing, cutaway model, diagramming, display, document, dramatisation, dramatization, ecce homo, effigy, example, figuration, free agency, fuzz, icon, ikon, illustration, image, image, instantiation, interpretation, intersection, legal representation, map, matinee, memory, mental image, mental object, model, model, model, modeling, modelling, nomogram, nomograph, objectification, overlap, pageant, pageantry, percept, perception, perceptual experience, performance, phantasmagoria, pictorial representation, picture, picturing, pieta, presentation, projection, proportional representation, psychosexuality, public presentation, reading, right, rubbing, schema, schematisation, schematization, scheme, set, shade, simulacrum, simulation, stage set, state, statement, stations of the Cross, stereotype, typification, unrealism, version

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Rep`re*sen*ta"tion\ (-z?n-t?"sh?n), n. [F.
repr?sentation, L. representatio.]
1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
2. That which represents. Specifically:
   (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a
       representation of the human face, or figure, and the
       like.
   (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
       representation; a representation of Hamlet.
   (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of
       an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
   (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a
       community or society; as, the representation of a
       State in Congress.
   (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made
       orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk
       is affected, or either party is influenced.
3. The state of being represented.
Syn: Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness;
     resemblance; exhibition; sight.
 
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