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US
/ˌɹɛpɹəzɛnˈteɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹˌɛpɹɪzˈɛntˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹˌɛpɹɪzˈɛntˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a performance of a play
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a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
certain representations were made concerning police brutality - the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
- a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
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a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
- the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
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a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
the sales contract contains several representations by the vendor - the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
- a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
How To Use representation In A Sentence
- This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
- So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
- Often the burial site is destroyed, or there is a differential representation of habitats.
- In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
- The monopoly in politics, or bossism, may possibly be abolished by direct legislation or by proportional representation.
- He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
- Lexical representation and development in a second language can be divided into three stages: formal stage, L1 lemma mediation stage, and L2 integration stage.
- But to be fair to him, he kept his aplomb and asked me, with great seriousness, if the representation was a true and proportionate likeness. GALILEE
- Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
