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representation

[rep-ri-zen-tey-shuhn, -zuhn-]

noun

the act of representing.

the state of being represented.

the expression or designation by some term, character, symbol, or the like.

action or speech on behalf of a person, group, business house, state, or the like by an agent, deputy, or representative.

the state or fact of being so represented: to demand representation on a board of directors.

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Government. the state, fact, or right of being represented by delegates having a voice in legislation or government.

the body or number of representatives, as of a constituency.

Diplomacy.

the act of speaking or negotiating on behalf of a state.

an utterance on behalf of a state.

presentation to the mind, as of an idea or image.

10.

a mental image or idea so presented; concept.

11.

the act of portrayal, picturing, or other rendering in visible form.

12.

a picture, figure, statue, etc.

13.

the production or a performance of a play or the like, as on the stage.

14.

Often, representations. a description or statement, as of things true or alleged.

15.

a statement of facts, reasons, etc., made in appealing or protesting; a protest or remonstrance.

16.

Law. an implication or statement of fact to which legal liability may attach if material: a representation of authority.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English representacion < Latin repraesentātiōn- (stem of repraesentātiō), equivalent to repraesentāt(us) (past participle of repraesentāre to represent) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

non·rep·re·sen·ta·tion, noun

o·ver·rep·re·sen·ta·tion, noun

pre·rep·re·sen·ta·tion, noun

self-rep·re·sen·ta·tion, noun

un·der·rep·re·sen·ta·tion, noun

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Example Sentences

The poor need representation in court and thousands of law school graduates need work.

Models draw their strength from selective representation.

It might be useful to have a public dialog about the relative merits of direct democracy versus representation.

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The poor need representation in court and thousands of law school graduates need work.

Models draw their strength from selective representation.

It might be useful to have a public dialog about the relative merits of direct democracy versus representation.

It also gave me a great visual representation of why it takes about two months to climb this mountain.

We could easily have decreed that one do math in your representation but it wouldn't have changed the above.

As they are now it is hard to get a clear representation of the damage done.

There were a couple of issues with my previous calculation of the best fractional representation of pi.

Denying indigent asylum seekers court-appointed legal representation has ended up costing the taxpayer more, not less.

The adequacy of representation was one of the key points.

Neither state should try and shape the will or representation of the other but accepted it as a given.

Mental evolution and development: evidence for secondary representation in children, great ages, and other animals.

There wouldn't have been any reason to publish it, even by the standard means of an artist's representation.

However, either the time of the video is not a good representation of the actual run or the average speed is too low.

But the conduct appears to be acceptable corporate legal representation during an investigation.

It's a habit of seeing and thinking that colors any representation of an individual's link to a collective.

List system of proportional representation based on universal adult suffrage.

Each colored dot is the visual representation of a feeling sentence.

What you need is not an accurate representation of feathers, but an accurate impression of feathers.

In this case, there's no representation in the fossil record of this form,” he said.

Eurocrats fiddle over their representation on international bodies as the euro burns.

Beliefs about beliefs: representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception.

The technology renders a three-dimensional digital representation of what a pilot sees out the window.

Having such an altered representation of reality is forbidden in our society.

The sheet music is displayed on-screen, along with a small representation of a keyboard.

Every phone is different, so the emulator is a general representation.

The new version gives more representation to unknown and unfindable authors of out-of-print books.

Have students give verbal reports on the relationship between the clay mountain and the mapped representation of.

They suggest that the brain does not register the limb as a part of the body, and contains no representation of it.

Clicking on each genre brings up a more detailed representation of its chief bodily concerns.

We measure gender equity in three important ways: representation on the faculty, pay, and family formation.

Countries with parliaments elected by proportional representation are often cursed with myriad political groups.

The first episode is a fair representation of life going into prison.

In this technique, the representation for the index is carefully selected with an eye toward minimizing search time.

The filtering engine also returns a visual representation of similar artists.

Shortly after the company emerged from bankruptcy, its flight attendants voted in favor of union representation.

White people were somewhat overrepresented among full professors compared with their representation among all faculty members.

Most human brains are not, it seems, quite plastic enough to make the leap from a visual representation to an aural one.

Avatar's representation of that collectivism is substantial.

And even that number isn't an accurate representation of the number of people who eventually need private banking.

My virtual representation of me, commonly known as an avatar, can outperform me as a.

The clans also have a visual representation in the form of animals, plants, and even dung.

In my mind, a much better representation is how often you have been.

Sensations from the skin on his chest were being processed within the hand representation area of his somatosensory cortex.

Given the military has such a high percantage of minorities, they deserve to have a greater representation in the officer corp.

Predictive mathematical models require only accurate and correct representation of essential factors to produce accurate results.

The second is a free-form and mind-blowing representation of the lunar surface.

Women also have made strides in their representation among college employees.

Thanks for this better representation of your character.

Jason is largely an exaggerated representation of my own geeky nature.

We kept looking for its representation on delivery trucks, which apparently favor it, but were disappointed.

Mind space is an enhanced representation of real space.

The number of papers on the site seems to be a far representation of the information.

Across species, body posture is often the primary representation of power.

The problem is that too many times the visual representation of this data is utter trash.

We adopt a case-based approach to the representation of behavior signatures.

We do not always want a faithful representation of reality.

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World English Dictionary

representation (ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act or an instance of representing or the state of being represented
2.	anything that represents, such as a verbal or pictorial portrait
3.	anything that is represented, such as an image brought clearly to mind
4.	the principle by which delegates act for a constituency
5.	a body of representatives
6.	contract law a statement of fact made by one party to induce another to enter into a contract
7.	an instance of acting for another, on his authority, in a particular capacity, such as executor or administrator
8.	a dramatic production or performance
9.	(often plural) a statement of facts, true or alleged, esp one set forth by way of remonstrance or expostulation
10.	linguistics an analysis of a word, sentence, etc, into its constituents: phonetic representation

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