Usually means: Depiction or portrayal of something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. representation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  3. representation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. representation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. representation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. representation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Representation, representation: Wordnik
  8. representation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. representation: Wiktionary
  10. representation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. representation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. representation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. representation: Dictionary.com
  14. representation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Representation (arts), Representation (disambiguation), Representation (journal), Representation (mathematics), Representation (politics), Representation (psychology), Representation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Representation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. representation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. representation: Rhymezone
  19. Representation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. representation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. representation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. representation: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. representation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. representation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. representation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. representation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. representation: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Representation (disambiguation), representation: Legal dictionary
  9. Representation (psychology), representation: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Representation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Representation (disambiguation), representation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Representation: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. representation, representation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See representational as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which represents something else.
noun:  The act of representing.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
noun:  (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
noun:  A theatrical performance.
noun:  A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
noun:  (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.

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