as in note
a usually brief written reminder he had scribbled his notation so quickly I couldn't read it

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Recent Examples of notation Those boxes contain, among other things, dozens of photographs of people’s faces, some of them marked up with strange mathematical notations—as if their human subjects were afflicted with some kind of geometrical skin disease. Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020 Memories are shaky and some notations in public records are disputed by her family. Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024 Hall and his team of cutters typically take 27 measurements, and add notations about posture, and physical asymmetries. Samantha Conti, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024 Enclose with your contribution the donor’s address with city, state and ZIP code for internal processing, a notation of whether the donation should remain anonymous, whether the donation is in the memory of someone special. Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for notation 

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“Notation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/notation. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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