Representation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of representing or the state of being represented.
  • n. Something that represents, as:
  • n. An image or likeness of something.
  • n. An account or statement, as of facts, allegations, or arguments.
  • n. An expostulation; a protest.
  • n. A presentation or production, as of a play.
  • n. The state or condition of serving as an official delegate, agent, or spokesperson.
  • n. The right or privilege of being represented by delegates having a voice in a legislative body.
  • n. A body of legislators that serve on behalf of a constituency.
  • n. Law A statement of fact made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract.
  • n. Mathematics A homomorphism from an algebraic system to a similar system of matrices.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. That which represents another.
  • n. The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
  • n. The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
  • n. An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
  • n. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
  • n. A theatrical performance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
  • n. That which represents.
  • n. A likeness, a picture, or a model.
  • n. A dramatic performance
  • n. A description or statement.
  • n. The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society.
  • n. Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
  • n. The state of being represented.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of presenting again.
  • n. The act of presenting to the mind or the view; the act of portraying, depicting, or exhibiting, as in imagination, in a picture, or on the stage; portrayal.
  • n. The image, picture, or scene presented, depicted, or exhibited.
  • n. A statement or an assertion made in regard to some matter or circumstance; a verbal description or statement: as, to obtain money by false representations.
  • n. An expostulatory statement of facts, arguments, or the like; remonstrance.
  • n. In psychology, the word chiefly used to translate the German Vorstellung, used in that language to translate the English word idea. See idea, 2 and 3.
  • n. A singular conception; a thought or idea of something as having a definite place in space at a definite epoch in time; the image of an object produced in consciousness.
  • n. A representative cognition; a mediate or vicarious cognition.
  • n. In law: The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance; the personating of another, as an heir, executor, or administrator.
  • n. More specifically, the coming in of children of a deceased heir apparent, devisee dying before the testator, etc., to take the share their parent would have taken had he survived, not as succeeding as the heirs of the parent, but as together representing him among the other heirs of the ancestor. See representative, n., 3.
  • n. Share or participation, as in legislation, deliberation, management, etc., by means of regularly chosen or appointed delegates; or, the system by which communities have a voice in the direction of their own affairs, and in the making of their own laws, by means of chosen delegates: as, parliamentary representation.
  • n. A representative or delegate, or a number of representatives collectively.
  • n. Synonyms Show; delineation, portraiture, likeness, resemblance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
  • n. a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
  • n. a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
  • n. the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
  • n. the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
  • n. a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
  • n. a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
  • n. the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
  • n. an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
  • n. a performance of a play
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    statement    body    right   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    portraiture    sight    likeness    description    delineaton    show    exhibition    resemblance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    description    conception    interpretation    aspect    image    perception    symbol    definition    relation    composition