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Schreibweise — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • notation noun A system of symbols used to represent information, especially in music, math, or science.
  • orthography noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
  • spelling noun The act or skill of putting letters in the correct order to form words.

Senses

Schreibweise is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • orthography (countable, more broadly) A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
  • spelling (countable) A specific spelling of a word.

orthography — full definition

  1. noun A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
  2. noun A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
  3. noun The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
  4. noun Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.

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