EGAVE

representation

About 36.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun That which represents something else.
    The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body.
  2. noun The act of representing.
    We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.
  3. noun The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
  4. noun The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
    People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance.
  5. noun The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
    The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution.
  6. noun An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
  7. noun A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
  8. noun A theatrical performance.

Similar words

agency delegacy internal representation mental representation representing representativeness represent representative characterization presentation

Often followed by

of in and is for to on that by

Word family

representational representationally representations

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