How to Use notation in a Sentence

notation

noun
  • Find the notation on servings and then use the arrow to scale up or down.
    Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Using this notation, the hat is Tile(1,√3 ), and the turtle is Tile(√3 ,1).
    Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Dizzy Dancer was declared a nonstarter in the chart and Seau was declared scratched with the notation: (gate).
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Mehr says that staff notation was just one of the five methods the researchers used to analyze the songs.
    Jim Daley, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The true freshman made sure that box score notation would not be his only highlight of the day.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Scribbled in the back of an aging Bible that traces the roots of Hank Wesch to his native Germany, there’s a telling notation.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The actual notations are still there on the wall in pencil.
    Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • The memory book notation and the handwritten note were shown to the jury on video.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Of those, about 3,600 used Excel spreadsheets to provide a list of the genes referenced in the notation.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2020
  • This notation is often used to represent the time rate of change of something.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 June 2021
  • The forced fumble first appeared as a notation at the bottom of the defensive page in NFL gamebooks in 1976.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 10 July 2021
  • Beginning on Monday, each day for the rest of the month is a palindrome, using the United States' date notation.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The notation for the plane ticket does not state a destination.
    The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Moran claims that nurses involved in the misconduct did not make notations in the patients' charts that they had been given the medicine.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Of the four umpires to work the game, Ziggy Sears holds an intriguing almost, what-if notation.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 1 July 2019
  • Get things in writing: Even an initialed notation, a text message or an email works.
    Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Most of the pictures in the archive have handwritten notations on the reverse, according to Aldridge.
    James Rogers, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • Miss Manners is afraid that there will have to be notations in address lists, indicating which method to use for whom.
    Judith Martin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The standard method of recording moves in a chess game is known as algebraic notation.
    Isaac Aronow, New York Times, 13 June 2022
  • There is one more important notation in the paperwork for this case.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Long hours went into the notation of his music for the Oregon Symphony.
    Nathan Carson | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The Arbery verdict was the latest notation in a slowly changing ledger.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • But without musical notation, there was no way to do so.
    Martha Anne Toll, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • Some have musical notation, but since dainas follow predictable schemes the tunes tend to be repeated, as in Celtic jigs and reels.
    The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
  • In a transcription in modern notation, the setting departs from the E above middle C, at the lower end of the soprano range.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The score consists of 84 different types of notation, most of them impossible to sight-read.
    Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • After each wrestler listed in the preview, there are notations to reflect last season.
    Brant Parsons, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Using their notation, what takes minutes to explain in a YouTube video can fit into a short string of characters.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • O’Donnell raised questions about whether Tikoian got the paperwork in on time, saying that the town lacks a time stamp and that a handwritten notation on when the document was filed has been changed.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • If this were an article in the 1980s, the labor of explaining Singmaster notation, and using it to guide you through the algorithms of solving the cube, might be worth it.
    Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2021

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