annotation

About 1.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.

   She added an annotation in the margin to clarify the text.

2. noun A comment added to a text.

   make an annotation

3. noun The process of writing such comment or commentary.
4. noun Metadata added to a document or program.
5. noun Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

Similar words

note notation annotating commentary footnote description marking mention inclusion explanation

Often followed by

of in is and to on for by references

Word family

annotations