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Notation vs Iotation - What's the difference?

notation | iotation |

As nouns the difference between notation and iotation

is that notation is (uncountable) the act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters while iotation is (linguistics) a specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the proto-slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant to form a palatalized consonant.

notation

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * note * notate

    Anagrams

    * tonation ----

    iotation

    English

    (Iotation)

    Alternative forms

    * jotation

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (linguistics) A specific occurrence of palatalization that occurred in the Proto-Slavic language, in which a consonant combined with the palatal approximant to form a palatalized consonant.
  • (linguistics) Any similar process occurring in a later Slavic language or elsewhere.
    • A form of iotation in the Serbo-Croatian language:'' ''s''''' ()