representation
/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun B2- That which represents something else. · The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body.
- The act of representing. · We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.
- The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
- The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court. · People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance.
- 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.
- 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.
Plural representations
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Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.”
Urgent representations have arrived from the very highest quarter.
Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France may perchance have noticed, about midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde,—a little nearer to the former than to the latter,—a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard.
The opera of Parisina was announced for representation, and the principal actors were Coselli, Moriani, and La Specchia.
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