representation

Meaning

Noun

• That which represents something else.
• The act of representing.
• The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
• The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
• An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
• A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
• A theatrical performance.
• An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.

Related

Similar words

• likeness

Origin

• From Old French representacion, from Latin repraesentatio.
• re- + presentation.