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
- noun A note added to a text, diagram or image to explain or comment on part of it.
- noun The act or process of adding such notes, or of labelling data so it can be searched or used to train software.
- noun In programming, a piece of metadata attached to code that tells a tool or framework how to treat it.
device — full definition
- noun A piece of equipment, especially electronic or mechanical, built to perform a specific job.
- noun A scheme or trick, often meant to deceive or gain advantage.
- noun A technique a writer or speaker uses deliberately to create an effect, such as a rhetorical or literary device.