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US /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ UK /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/
noun Freq #16523

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    documentary validation

    Their documentation of the results was excellent.

  2. 2
    noun

    A documentary.

    Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

  3. 3
    noun

    program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs

  4. 4
    noun

    confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

  5. 5
    noun

    Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.

  6. 6
    noun

    Documentary evidence and sources.

  7. 7
    noun

    Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

  8. 8
    noun

    Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

Etymology

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · documentary validation support
3 noun · program listings or... software documentation
4 noun · confirmation that some fact... certification
Word family
Derived forms docdocumentationale-documentationoverdocumentationphotodocumentationredocumentationteledocumentation
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