Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, in the plural, rare, uncountable)Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.

    документа́цияdokumentácija

  2. (countable, in the plural, rare, uncountable)Documentary evidence and sources.

    documentary validation

  3. (countable, in the plural, rare, uncountable)Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

    Dokumentation

    документа́цияdokumentácija

    документа́ціяdokumentácija

    program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs

  4. (countable, in the plural, rare, uncountable)Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

  5. A documentary.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. The documentation isn't up to date.

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  2. Tom didn't have time to read all the documentation.

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  3. Describing reality involves a large amount of documentation.

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  4. French, the official language, is used in administration and documentation.

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  5. Weren't you supposed to get to work on writing the software documentation?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program:
Русский
By meaning 1
something transposed from a thought to a document:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program:

Origin

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio. Borrowed from German Dokumentation

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

Borrowed from German Dokumentation.

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Forms

plural: documentations
Singulardocumentation
Pluraldocumentations

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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