How to Use notation in a Sentence

notation

noun
  • Find the notation on servings and then use the arrow to scale up or down.
    Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Using this notation, the hat is Tile(1,√3 ), and the turtle is Tile(√3 ,1).
    Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Using this notation, the hat is Tile(1,√3 ), and the turtle is Tile(√3 ,1).
    Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Lay’s name bore no such notation, which would have been a source of pain and sadness to him.
    Marcus Rediker, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • To top it off, there are even more notations on the gluten-free menu besides just gluten.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • It’s been marked up with notations in Sharpie, added after the poster was printed in 2006.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Dizzy Dancer was declared a nonstarter in the chart and Seau was declared scratched with the notation: (gate).
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The modern notation for square roots came into use in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • Mehr says that staff notation was just one of the five methods the researchers used to analyze the songs.
    Jim Daley, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The true freshman made sure that box score notation would not be his only highlight of the day.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2021
  • One helpful notation on their website under each plant or tree is the zone in which the plant will thrive.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Scribbled in the back of an aging Bible that traces the roots of Hank Wesch to his native Germany, there’s a telling notation.
    Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The actual notations are still there on the wall in pencil.
    Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • The memory book notation and the handwritten note were shown to the jury on video.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Of those, about 3,600 used Excel spreadsheets to provide a list of the genes referenced in the notation.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2020
  • This notation is often used to represent the time rate of change of something.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 25 June 2021
  • The forced fumble first appeared as a notation at the bottom of the defensive page in NFL gamebooks in 1976.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 10 July 2021
  • Even an initialed notation, a text message or an e-mail works.
    Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Beginning on Monday, each day for the rest of the month is a palindrome, using the United States' date notation.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The notation for the plane ticket does not state a destination.
    The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Moran claims that nurses involved in the misconduct did not make notations in the patients' charts that they had been given the medicine.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Of the four umpires to work the game, Ziggy Sears holds an intriguing almost, what-if notation.
    Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 1 July 2019
  • Gray's notation read), as did her favorite coat check woman at the salon.
    Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2015
  • Get things in writing: Even an initialed notation, a text message or an email works.
    Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2020
  • There was a curious notation next to the names of two of the top four players selected in the Major League Baseball draft this month.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • The Feldman piece uses graphic notation to grant more freedom to the performer.
    Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim and Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Nikolai Sergeyev, an émigré ballet master, took out the notations for stagings in the West.
    Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • Most of the pictures in the archive have handwritten notations on the reverse, according to Aldridge.
    James Rogers, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • Miss Manners is afraid that there will have to be notations in address lists, indicating which method to use for whom.
    Judith Martin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Angeli, according to a notation from the judge in the case, has also found a stable residence, a job and was married.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024

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