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Notation vs Intonation - What's the difference?

notation | intonation |

As nouns the difference between notation and intonation

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 intonation is the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

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 ----

    intonation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
  • The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
  • Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
  • Her intonation was false.
  • Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
  • A thundering; thunder.
  • (Bailey)

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