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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANNOTA'TION, n. [L. annotatio, of ad and notatio, a marking, from noto, to mark, or nota, a mark.]
1. A remark, note or commentary on some passage of a book, intended to illustrate its meaning; generally used in the plural, as annotations on the scriptures.
2. The first symptoms of a fever, or attack of a paroxysm.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope" [syn: note, annotation, notation]
2: the act of adding notes [syn: annotation, annotating]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. a note added by way of comment or explanation 2. the act of annotating

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) A marking placed on imagery or drawings for explanatory purposes or to indicate items or areas of special importance.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Annotation An`no*ta"tion, n. [L. annotatio: cf. F. annotation.] A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(annotations) 1. Annotation is the activity of annotating something. She retained a number of copies for further annotation. 2. An annotation is a note that is added to a text or diagram, often in order to explain it. He supplied annotations to nearly 15,000 musical works. = footnote N-COUNT: usu pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Note, comment, commentary, remark, observation, gloss, scholium, explanation, elucidation, illustration. 2. Supplying with notes, making notes, commentation, commenting, illustrating, illustration, elucidating, elucidation.

Moby Thesaurus

adversaria, aide-memoire, apparatus criticus, comment, commentary, commentation, docket, entry, exegesis, footnote, gloss, item, jotting, marginal note, marginalia, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, notation, note, note of explanation, register, registry, reminder, scholia, scholium, word of explanation