Notation vs Denotation - What's the difference?
notation | denotation |
(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.
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
(philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
(semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary
(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
As nouns the difference between notation and denotation
is that notation is the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters while denotation is the act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.notation
English
(wikipedia notation)Noun
- She made a notation in the margin of the book.
Derived terms
* Hungarian notation * Polish notationAnagrams
* tonation ----denotation
English
(wikipedia denotation)Noun
(en noun)- The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.