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Meaning of "annotation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANNOTATION

annotation  [ˌænəʊˈteɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANNOTATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Annotation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANNOTATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Annotation

An annotation is metadata attached to text, image, or other data. Often annotations refer to a specific part of the original data.

Definition of annotation in the English dictionary

The definition of annotation in the dictionary is the act of annotating. Other definition of annotation is a note added in explanation, etc, esp of some literary work.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANNOTATION


accreditation
əˌkrɛdɪˈteɪʃən
adaptation
ˌædəpˈteɪʃən
alimentation
ˌælɪmɛnˈteɪʃən
citation
saɪˈteɪʃən
consultation
ˌkɒnsəlˈteɪʃən
documentation
ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən
excitation
ˌɛksɪˈteɪʃən
hesitation
ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən
implementation
ˌɪmplɪmenˈteɪʃən
interpretation
ɪnˌtɜːprɪˈteɪʃən
invitation
ˌɪnvɪˈteɪʃən
limitation
ˌlɪmɪˈteɪʃən
meditation
ˌmɛdɪˈteɪʃən
orientation
ˌɔːrɪɛnˈteɪʃən
presentation
ˌprɛzənˈteɪʃən
rehabilitation
ˌriːəˌbɪlɪˈteɪʃən
representation
ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃən
reputation
ˌrɛpjʊˈteɪʃən
rotation
rəʊˈteɪʃən
transportation
ˌtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANNOTATION

anniversary day
anniversary dinner
anno Domini
anno regni
anno urbis conditae
annona
annotatable
annotate
annotated
annotative
annotator
announce
announcement
announcer
annoy
annoyance
annoyed
annoyer
annoying
annoyingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANNOTATION

action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
duration
education
evaluation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of annotation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANNOTATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «annotation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of annotation

Translation of «annotation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANNOTATION

Find out the translation of annotation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of annotation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «annotation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

注释
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anotación
570 millions of speakers

English

annotation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एनोटेशन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشرح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аннотации
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anotação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টীকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

annotation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anotasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anmerkung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

注釈
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주석
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anotasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chú thích
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறுகுறிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भाष्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

not
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

annotazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adnotacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анотації
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adnotare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχολιασμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

body
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

annotering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

annotering
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of annotation

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANNOTATION»

The term «annotation» is very widely used and occupies the 21.993 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of annotation
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «annotation».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANNOTATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «annotation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «annotation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about annotation

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «ANNOTATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word annotation.
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Jack Dorsey
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANNOTATION»

Discover the use of annotation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to annotation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Introduction to Linguistic Annotation and Text Analytics
formats using XSLT transformations. The two main text analytics architectures, GATE and UIMA, are then described and compared, with practical exercises showing how to configure and customize them.
Graham Wilcock, 2009
2
Corpus annotation: linguistic information from computer text ...
This is a text which surveys the growing field of research known as corpus annotation - an electronic collection of texts. Corpus annotation is a central resource in linguisticsi̧nformation technology and the processing of human language.
Roger Garside, Geoffrey N. Leech, Tony McEnery, 1997
3
Modern Genome Annotation: The Biosapiens Network
A description of the scientific developments in the field of bioinformatics and computational implementation presented by research of the BioSapiens Network of Excellence.
D. Frishman, Alfonso Valencia, 2009
4
Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning
Define a clear annotation goal before collecting your dataset (corpus) Learn tools for analyzing the linguistic content of your corpus Build a model and specification for your annotation project Examine the different annotation formats, ...
James Pustejovsky, Amber Stubbs, 2012
5
Annotation for the Semantic Web
The Digital Library Approach. Manual Annotations. Wrapping. Information Extraction & Linguistics. Graphics. Usage of Annotations.
Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, 2003
6
Digital Content Annotation and Transcoding
This book provides the technical details of transcoding and annotation that engineers need to know to create accessible and reusable digital content capable of being tailored and personalized for a particular audience
Katashi Nagao, 2003
7
Knowledge Annotation: Making Implicit Knowledge Explicit: ...
In practice, anything which can be identified either virtually or physically can be annotated. In this book, we will delve into what makes annotations, and analyse their significance for the future evolutions of the web.
Alexiei Dingli, 2011
8
Database Annotation in Molecular Biology: Principles and ...
This book compiles information about annotation -- its current status, what is required to improve it, what skills must be brought to bear on database curation and hence what is the proper training for annotators.
Arthur M. Lesk, 2005
9
Annotation and its texts
A spirited study of a neglected topic, these essays explore the character and uses of annotation from Biblical times to the present.
Stephen A. Barney, 1991
10
Genome Annotation
Suitable for both students new to the field and professionals who deal with genomic information in their work, the book offers two genome annotation systems on an accompanying CD-ROM.
Jung Soh, Paul M.K. Gordon, Christoph W. Sensen, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANNOTATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term annotation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Doctor fined over inaccurate report on tortured woman in Turkey's west
... the time, added annotation to a decision previously made the defendant police officers and A.K. serve from six months to two years in prison. «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Japan admits forced labor in UNESCO heritage sites
... Germany, after Korea and Japan finalized their last-minute negotiations on attaching an annotation to Japan's UNESCO documents citing the ... «Korea Times, Jul 15»
3
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
St. Scholastica Retreat Center, 1205 S. Albert Pike, Fort Smith, will offer a Retreat in Daily Life, the 19th Annotation to the Spiritual Exercises of ... «NWAOnline, Jul 15»
4
Use an arrow, not a sentence: Skitch lets you annotate images
An annotation with a heart is instantly recognizable: Add the word "More like this" to that annotation, and you're sending a message. Circle a ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
5
Ecophysiology of an uncultivated lineage of Aigarchaeota from an …
Manual annotation of all genes and pathways was necessary because the annotation pipeline missed a number of archaeal central carbon ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
6
Metagenomic study of red biofilms from Diamante Lake reveals …
A first annotation step was performed by BLASTP of all predicted peptides against the full NCBI NR Database using an e-value cutoff of 1E-20. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
7
Congress in July: A POLITICO annotation
The Senate's workings are famously hard to predict, but the House majority lays out its legislative priorities in a document every month. «Politico, Jul 15»
8
Microsoft Edge is already good enough for me to drop Chrome
The distraction-free reading mode from the first builds is still in tow, while the Web Note annotation tool is a great option for tablet users and ... «The Next Web, Jul 15»
9
BioBam and Biomatters offer Functional Annotation Tools for …
Everyone interested in high-quality functional annotation of novel sequence data and the functional interpretation of genomic datasets should ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
10
The Great Chinese E-Commerce Gold Rush
Use hreflang annotation and correct Content-Language declarations in your HTML to denote that this content is targeting English speakers in ... «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Annotation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/annotation>. Jun 2026 ».
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