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merkintä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • annotation noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  • device noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
  • entry noun The act of entering, or a means of entering a place.
  • guide noun A person who shows others around a place or leads them along a route, especially one hired for the purpose.
  • labeling noun The labels attached to products or objects, or the process of putting them on.
  • notation noun A system of symbols used to represent information, especially in music, math, or science.

Senses

merkintä is used for these senses in English:

  • annotation (computing) Metadata added to a document or program.
  • device (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
  • entry A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
  • guide Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
  • labeling A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.
  • notation (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
  • notation (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
  • notation (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.

annotation — full definition

  1. noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
  2. noun The act or process of adding such notes, or of labelling data so it can be searched or used to train software.
  3. noun In programming, a piece of metadata attached to code that tells a tool or framework how to treat it.

device — full definition

  1. noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
  2. noun A scheme or trick, often meant to deceive or gain advantage.
  3. noun A technique a writer or speaker uses deliberately to create an effect, such as a rhetorical or literary device.

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