ANNOTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of adding notes

Synonyms:

annotating; annotation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("annotation" is a kind of...):

expanding upon; expansion (adding information or detail)

Derivation:

annotate (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A comment or instruction (usually added)

Example:

he added a short notation to the address on the envelope

Synonyms:

annotation; notation; note

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)

Derivation:

annotate (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

Credits

Context examples:

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has successfully found features in pathology images from human cancer patients, without annotation, that could be understood by human doctors.