# representation
## English
### Etymology 1

From Late Middle English representacioun, from Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentātiō. By surface analysis, represent +‎ -ation.

#### Alternative forms

* repræsentation (archaic)

#### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eɪʃən
* IPA: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)
* That which represents something else.
    The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body.
** 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry‎, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]
** 2023 April 10, Sarah Wu, Yew Lun Tian, Fabian Hamacher, Yimou Lee, “A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral”, in Gareth Jones, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 April 2023:Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh - created by British author A.A. Milne - over internet memes that compare the fictional bear to China's president.
* The act of representing.
    We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.
** 2022 January 12, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Vere admits to Lords: IRP lacks information”, in RAIL, number 948, page 11:That's according to a report published in The Guardian on New Year's Eve in which several regional leaders, including Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, were highly critical of the apparent lack of northern representation in the decision-making process.
* (by extension, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
* (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
    People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance.
* (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
    The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution.
* (mathematics) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
* A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
* A theatrical performance.
* A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others

##### Synonyms

* (image, form): likeness

##### Derived terms

* corepresentation
* faithful representation (mathematics)
* group representation constituency
* lodge solemn representation
* metarepresentation
* microrepresentation
* misrepresentation
* multirepresentation
* nonrepresentation
* overrepresentation
* proportional representation
* pseudorepresentation
* representational
* representationary
* representationism
* representationist
* representationless
* representation space
* representation term
* representation theorist
* representation theory
* ribbon representation
* somatorepresentation
* Stone's representation theorem
* subrepresentation
* time-frequency representation
* under-representation, underrepresentation

##### Related terms

* represent
* representable
* representamen
* representant

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From re- +‎ presentation.

#### Alternative forms

* re-presentation

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɹiː.pɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/

#### Noun

representation (plural representations)
* (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
    rates of representation to the emergency department

### References

* “representation”, in 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “representation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* repenetrations