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notation

[noh-tay-shuhn] / noʊˈteɪ ʃən /


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Under the direction of his new friend, he began to create his own form of notation, and his earliest pieces were scored in graphs rather than as any sort of traditional sheet music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

"At the start of the lesson, I would go through how to play the musical notation, and then the lesson would just be silent focus on trying to learn this musical notation," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Villanueva refiled the case, alleging that he’d suffered emotional distress and that the “do not rehire” notation made it difficult for him to find a job.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

“Dorico’s not totally perfect if you have super weird stuff like harp notation or complicated percussion staves. You might have to hand-tweak those after they’re in the new system,” said Pogue.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024

With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Based on a 2014 play by David Haig, who co-wrote its screenplay with its director, Anthony Maras, the movie faces an obvious challenge: Watching meteorologists scribble notations on charts isn’t particularly cinematic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

GPT-4 generated identical notations for the same marker genes in 85 percent of cases.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Amid all the praise, criticism, helpful notations and humorous color, Slagle’s voice is notably absent.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023

Turns out his caddie had used a level on the practice green and put some notations in the book.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

They appear to be bank ledgers, rows upon rows of numbers and calculations with notations and totals and dates.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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