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Representation
Representation Rep`re*sen*ta"tion (-z?n-t?"sh?n), n. [F.
repr?sentation, L. representatio.]
1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
2. That which represents. Specifically:
(a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a
representation of the human face, or figure, and the
like.
(b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
representation; a representation of Hamlet.
(c) A description or statement; as, the representation of
an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
(d) The body of those who act as representatives of a
community or society; as, the representation of a
State in Congress.
(e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made
orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk
is affected, or either party is influenced.
3. The state of being represented.
Syn: Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness;
resemblance; exhibition; sight.
Meaning of Representations from wikipedia
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Representations is an
interdisciplinary journal in the
humanities published quarterly by the
University of
California Press. The
journal was established...
- The
theory of
matrices and
linear operators is well-understood, so
representations of more
abstract objects in
terms of
familiar linear algebra objects...
- In computing,
signed number representations are
required to
encode negative numbers in
binary number systems. In mathematics,
negative numbers in any...
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Collective representations are concepts, ideas,
categories and
beliefs that do not
belong to
isolated individuals, but are
instead the
product of a social...
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representing dates and times, so as to
avoid misinterpretation of
numeric representations of
dates and times,
particularly when data is
transferred between countries...
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Epidemiology of
representations, or
cultural epidemiology, is a
theory for
explaining cultural phenomena by
examining how
mental representations get distributed...
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irreducible representations. As
irreducible representations are
always indecomposable (i.e.
cannot be
decomposed further into a
direct sum of
representations),...
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representation theory, the
category of
representations of some
algebraic structure A has the
representations of A as
objects and
equivariant maps as...
- In mathematics, the
tensor representations of the
general linear group are
those that are
obtained by
taking finitely many
tensor products of the fundamental...
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vector space.
Representations play an
important role in the
study of
continuous symmetry. A
great deal is
known about such
representations, a
basic tool...