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Codify vs Notation - What's the difference?

codify | notation |

As a verb codify

is to reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

As a noun notation is

the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.

codify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
  • :
  • To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
  • *
  • *:The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?;. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “?near-aissance.”
  • Derived terms

    * codifiability * codification * codifier

    notation

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
  • (uncountable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
  • (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
  • She made a notation in the margin of the book.

    Derived terms

    * Hungarian notation * Polish notation

    Anagrams

    * tonation ----