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Notation vs Potation - What's the difference?

notation | potation |

As nouns the difference between notation and potation

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 potation is (often|plural) the act of drinking.

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 ----

    potation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, plural) The act of drinking.
  • A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage.

    • Quotations

    *1819 , , Ivanhoe , *:Perhaps his nocturnal potations , prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.