notation

noun

1. the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters

2. a comment or instruction (usually added)

e.g. his notes were appended at the end of the article
he added a short notation to the address on the envelope

Synonym: noteannotation

3. a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

Synonym: notational system

1. (音乐、数学等的)标记系统，成套符号
A system of notation is a set of written symbols that are used to represent something such as music or mathematics.

e.g. Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and space represents a note in this scale.
五线谱以C大音阶构成，每一个线和间代表这个音阶的音符。
e.g. ...some other abstract notation system like a computer language.
其他的抽象符号系统，如计算机语言

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