representation

See also: représentation

English

Alternative forms

• repræsentation (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛn.ˈteɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

representation (countable and uncountable, plural representations)

1. That which represents something else.

   The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body.

2. The act of representing.

   We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events.

3. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

   People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance.

4. (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.

5. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
6. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
7. A theatrical performance.

Synonyms

• (image, form): likeness

Derived terms

• faithful representation (mathematics)
• representation space

Related terms

• represent
• representable
• representamen
• representant

Translations

that which represents something else

• Catalan: representació (ca) f
• Czech: reprezentace (cs) f
• Dutch: weergave (nl)
• Finnish: esitys (fi), representaatio
• Galician: representación (gl)
• Georgian: წარმომადგენლობა (c̣armomadgenloba)
• Greek: αναπαράσταση (el) f (anaparástasi)
• Ladin: raprejentanza f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: representasjon m

  Nynorsk: representasjon m

• Persian: نمایش‎ (fa) (namāyeš)
• Portuguese: representação (pt) f
• Romanian: reprezentare (ro) f
• Spanish: representación (es) f
• Vietnamese: sự đại diện

people who speak on behalf of another in court

• Dutch: vertegenwoordiging (nl)
• Finnish: edustaja (fi) (individual); edustus (fi) (collective)

• Hungarian: jogi képviselet, védelem (hu)
• Spanish: representación (es) f

politics: ability to elect a representative

• Finnish: edustus (fi), edustusoikeus

• Hungarian: képviselet (hu)

mathematics: object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces

• Finnish: kuvaus (fi)

figure, image or idea that substitutes reality

• Czech: vyobrazení n
• Dutch: weergave (nl)
• Finnish: mielikuva (fi)
• French: représentation (fr)
• Galician: representación (gl) f
• Greek: αναπαράσταση (el) f (anaparástasi)
• Hungarian: ábrázolás (hu), megjelenítés (hu)

• Italian: rappresentazione (it)
• Persian: نمایش‎ (fa) (namāyeš)
• Portuguese: representação (pt) f
• Romanian: înfățișare (ro) f, închipuire (ro) f, reprezentare (ro) f
• Spanish: representación (es) f
• Tagalog: talilahat

theatrical performance

• Czech: představení (cs) n
• Finnish: esitys (fi)
• French: représentation (fr) f
• Galician: representación (gl) f
• Georgian: წარმოდგენა (c̣armodgena)

• Greek: παράσταση (el) f (parástasi)
• Persian: نمایش‎ (fa) (namāyeš)
• Polish: przedstawienie (pl) n
• Romanian: reprezentare (ro) f
• Spanish: representación (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} esitus
• French: ^{(please verify)} représentation (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Repräsentation f, Darstellung (de) f

• Polish: ^{(please verify)} reprezentacja (pl) f (1)
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} representação (pt)

Further reading

• representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• representation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• repenetrations