Description vs Notation - What's the difference?
description | notation |
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
(biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
(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.
As nouns the difference between description and notation
is that description is a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species while notation is the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.description
English
(wikipedia description)Noun
(en noun)- The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.
Synonyms
* (characteristics) sort, kind, type, varietyExternal links
* *See also
* synopsis * interpretationAnagrams
* ----notation
English
(wikipedia notation)Noun
- She made a notation in the margin of the book.