ANNOTATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does annotation mean?
• ANNOTATION (noun)
The noun ANNOTATION has 2 senses:
1. a comment or instruction (usually added)
2. the act of adding notes
Familiarity information: ANNOTATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANNOTATION (noun)
Meaning:
A comment or instruction (usually added)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
annotation; notation; note
Context examples:
his notes were appended at the end of the article / he added a short notation to the address on the envelope
Hypernyms ("annotation" is a kind of...):
comment; commentary (a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "annotation"):
poste restante (a notation written on mail that is to be held at the post office until called for (not in the United States or Canada))
acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage)
footer; footnote (a printed note placed below the text on a printed page)
N.B.; NB; nota bene (a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something)
postscript; PS (a note appended to a letter after the signature)
Meaning:
The act of adding notes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
annotating; annotation
Hypernyms ("annotation" is a kind of...):
expanding upon; expansion (adding information or detail)
