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annotation Definition

an·no·ta·tion (an′ə tā′s̸hən, an′ō-)

noun

  1. an annotating or being annotated
  2. a critical or explanatory note or notes

annotation Synonyms

annotation

n.

footnotes, glossary, notes, commentary; see explanation 2.

annotation Law Definition

n

Comments that analyze, explain, or criticize, or a collection of brief summaries of appellate cases that have applied or interpreted, a particular statutory provision. These comments and summaries are appended to, and published with, the statute in a set of volumes. For example, the United States Code Annotated contains the statutes of the United States and, after each statutory provision are the comments and summaries pertaining to that provision.

annotation Telecom Definition

A feature of voice mail systems that allows a message recipient to add critical or explanatory audio notes to a voice message before archiving it or forwarding it to another system user. See also voice mail.

annotation Usage Examples

Preposition: on

genome: Ultimately, the CCDS aims to support convergence toward a standard set of gene annotations on the human genome.

Adjective modifier

  • handwritten: By Friday 7th Newman had read the outline and made handwritten annotations, before returning the synopsis to Wilson.
  • semantic: These enhance the web site by providing personalized content driven by the semantic annotations.
  • textual: Music and audio can possess textual annotations, or vise versa.
  • automated: We are hoping to produce automated annotations that in style are between these 2 extremes.
  • linguistic: Lancaster's involvement in the project is the linguistic annotation of Shakespeare texts.
  • automatic: Second, that we need to launch a process of massive automatic annotation to kick-start takeup of new knowledge technologies in Europe.

Converse of object

  • contain: Each section of the book contains annotations by the editor.
  • delete: Across a network, you cannot delete annotations created by other users.
  • retrieve: These include how documents are stored and displayed, methods of retrieving past annotations, and the relation between annotation and editing.
  • embed: For embedded annotation there will be a single document stored, which ( we assume ) the user can access.

Modifies a noun

anchor: Annotation anchors may contain mark-up, which must be properly nested.

Preposition: of

  • genome: The RefSeq standards, generated in collaboration with external experts, provide a foundation for the functional annotation of the human genome.
  • corpus: The entire process is cyclic because, during the annotation of a corpus, or indeed afterward, standards may need to be revised.

Noun used with modifier

  • proteome: Biopendium™ is the Company's proteome annotation resource, accessed by partners through commercial license.
  • strictness: To achieve good performance from lazy implementations, it proved necessary to apply strictness annotations to certain commonly-used data structures.
  • corpus: A very large amount of recent work in corpus linguistics concerns annotation.
  • genome: This approach can also be used to automatically test biological genome annotations.
  • on-screen: It contains a film of a complete Symbolic Modeling session with on-screen annotation.
  • hypertext: Marshall, C. ` Toward an ecology of hypertext annotation ' , Proc.