different between representation vs eidolon

English

Etymology 1

From Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentatio.

Alternative forms

• repræsentation (archaic)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n
• IPA^(key): /???p.??.z?n.?te?.??n/

Noun

representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)

1. That which represents something else.
2. The act of representing.

   We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.

3. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

4. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

5. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
6. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
7. A theatrical performance.

Synonyms

• (image, form): likeness

Derived terms

• faithful representation (mathematics)
• representation space
• under-representation, underrepresentation

Related terms

• represent
• representable
• representamen
• representant

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? presentation.

Alternative forms

• re-presentation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?.p??.z?n.?te?.??n/

Noun

representation (plural representations)

1. (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.

References

• representation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• representation in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• representation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• repenetrations

English

Alternative forms

• eidôlon
• idolon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (eíd?lon, “figure, representation”), from ????? (eîdos, “sight”), from ???? (eíd?, “I see”). Doublet of idol and idolum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a??d??l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a??do?l?n/

Noun

eidolon (plural eidola or eidolons)

1. An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:

     It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 697:

     Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.

2. A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Was Philippe d'Orleans seen, this day, 'in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtout;' waiting under the wet sere foliage, what the day might bring forth? Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.

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