different between notation vs potation

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /no??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

notation (countable and uncountable, plural notations)

1. (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
2. (uncountable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.

   This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book. (Using notations would be incorrect).

   The notations used in the two books differed. (Using notation would be incorrect).

3. (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

   She made a notation in the margin of the book.

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• Ottonian, tonation

French

Etymology

From Latin not?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.ta.sj??/

Noun

notation f (plural notations)

1. rating (evaluation of status)

Related terms

• noter

Descendants

• ? Polish: notacja

Further reading

• “notation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English potacion, from Old French potacion, from Latin p?t?ti?.

Noun

potation (countable and uncountable, plural potations)

1. (often in the plural) The act of drinking.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe,

     Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.

2. A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage.

   • For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.

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See also

• libation

Anagrams

• optation