annotation

IPA: ænʌtˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
  • A comment added to a text.
  • The process of writing such comment or commentary.
  • (computing) Metadata added to a document or program.
  • (genetics) Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.
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Examples of "annotation" in Sentences

  • Web annotation is definitely in its infancy right now.
  • Each 200-250 word annotation is written to give the reader a sense of the book's style and content.
  • That explains why the code compiles and runs even if I remove the "@Override" annotation from the code.
  • Finally, the most recent MISTBORN 3 annotation is for chapter 16, in which I discuss Spook's reaction to the Citizen's reign.
  • For me annotation is the big noise and as Reader gets more fully featured comparisons between it and other aggregators is inevitable, FriendFeed por ejemplo.
  • And one of the many, many pleasures of Alfred Appel's masterly introduction and annotation is the discovery that Nabokov did not realize that Maurice Girodias and the Olympia Press were specialists in — well, shall we just say "erotica"? — when he let them have the manuscript.
  • Well, one of the definitions of annotation is - "A critical or explanatory note; a commentary" - so I would argue that all blogging is annotation since everything we write is an attempt to 'explain' whether that's to explain something about the world or something that's in our head.

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