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It is intended (like an asterisk in a modern book) to refer the reader to the self-same annotation which is spoken of in the text as occurring in Cod.

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  1. noun The act or process of furnishing critical commentary or explanatory notes.
  2. noun A critical or explanatory note; a commentary.

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  • In Minas Tirith it received much annotation, and many corrections, especially of names, words, and quotations in the Elvish languages; and there was added to it an abbreviated version of those parts of The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen which lie outside the account of the War. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The satire was of that dreadful kind which requires notes and commentaries to point out who is hit and what is meant; and the annotation, as is usual in such cases, took up much more space than the text. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
  • However, due to the complexity of the task, semantic annotation has never been tried on a large scale, apart from relatively simple term annotation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • RESULTS: We have completed a new type of semantic annotation, event annotation, which is an addition to the existing annotations in the GENIA corpus. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The major challenges during event annotation were (1) to design a scheme of annotation which meets specific requirements of text annotation, (2) to achieve biology-oriented annotation which reflect biologists 'interpretation of text, and (3) to ensure the homogeneity of annotation quality across annotators. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. from Latin annotatio(n-), adnotatio(n-), from annotare, adnotare: see annotate.
 

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