Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to representation, especially to realistic graphic representation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or containing representation, in any sense; of the nature of representation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
representation or torepresentationalism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen
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Examples
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This is what I call representational redescription.
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He believed that socialism would — and must — come to America, not through armed, bloody revolution but through popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of the state.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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For Scott, socialist democracy would come to America not through violent revolution but by popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of a protective, activist state.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Of course, as they place these images on web pages, the shift in representational medium allows students the possibility of breaking out of Cartesian perspectivalism as a model for mediation between viewer and object viewed.
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Olaf Peters calls the representational, highly topical style of painter Otto Dix "intransigent realism."
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One step above entry-level luxury is the standard business hotel, the Marriotts and Hyatts, followed by the so-called representational business hotels, like the St. Regis and the Crowne Plaza.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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One step above entry-level luxury is the standard business hotel, the Marriotts and Hyatts, followed by the so-called representational business hotels, like the St. Regis and the Crowne Plaza.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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I also know this, which is even more disconcerting: That two of the principles that have made this country exceptional -- the free press and the idea of representational government -- have inexplicably, impossibly, been, if not quelled, then stifled.
Bad Shakespeare 2007
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Dretske's view centers on the idea of representational systems as systems with the function of tracking features of the world (for a similar view, see Millikan 1984, 1993).
Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006
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∑ Reject all forms of hierarchy including capitalism, party communism, patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and so-called representational politics;
Rochester IMC 2009
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Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or behaviours over time, a phenomenon that neuroscientists have dubbed representational drift (see ‘How neuronal activity drifts over time’).
The brain’s code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled Diana Kwon 2026
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