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Representation   /rˌɛprəzɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Representation

noun
1.
A presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image.  Synonyms: internal representation, mental representation.
2.
A creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something.
3.
The act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf.
4.
The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent.  Synonyms: agency, delegacy.
5.
A body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency.
6.
A factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract.
7.
A performance of a play.  Synonyms: histrionics, theatrical, theatrical performance.
8.
A statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting.
9.
The right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body.
10.
An activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent.



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"Representation" Quotes from Famous Books



... impressed on my mind—I thoroughly detested. And so I began seriously to think of the backwoods of America. But there was another destiny in store for me. My native town, up till this time, though a place of considerable trade, was unfurnished with a branch bank; but on the representation of some of its more extensive traders, and of the proprietors of the neighbouring lands, the Commercial Bank of Scotland had agreed to make it the scene of one of its agencies, and arranged with a sagacious and successful merchant and shipowner ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... representation seems ever to have prevailed in Ireland. That idea is, in fact, almost purely Teutonic, and seems never to have sprung up spontaneously amongst any Celtic people. The family was the real root. Every head of a family ruled his own household, and submitted in his turn to the ...
— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless
... 'bushwhackers.' On his way and in McDowell County the man managed to escape and returned into Hopkins's neighborhood, near Boone C. H., where he took his wife and three children alleged to have been the property of a woman named Smoot, and brought them to this post. Upon his representation that he had escaped from armed rebels in McDowell County, and without further knowledge of the facts, the Post Quartermaster set him at work. About the 19th of February Hopkins came to town with Mrs. Smoot, and without notice to the quartermaster or any color of authority ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... moment. It seems that he has an old Pott's fracture of the left ankle, a linear, longitudinal scar on each knee—origin not stated, but easily guessed at—and that he has tattooed on his chest in vermilion a very finely and distinctly executed representation of the symbolical Eye of Osiris—or Horus or Ra, as the different authorities have it. There certainly ought to be no difficulty in identifying the body. But we will hope that it ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... went down charged with reproof and representation, but failed to produce the desired effect ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge


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