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Annotation

noun

A comment or instruction (usually added). Synonyms: notation, note. "He added a short notation to the address on the envelope"

The act of adding notes. Synonym: annotating.

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"Annotation" Quotes from Famous Books

... An annotation concerning the trauailes of the sayd Baldwirie, taken out of Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Itinerarium Cambrise, lib, a. Cap. 14. ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation. v. 8 - Asia, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt

... with Caesar, and false play'd my glory/Unto an enemy's triumph] [Warburton had explained and praised Shakespeare's "metaphor"] This explanation is very just, the thought did not deserve so good an annotation. ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... printed, a callendar of letters to and from him printed in this volume, and the correspondence of the statesman. The work of the author appears to be more of that of a collector than that of an editor, for the volume has very little annotation. In the short preface the author undertakes to give the place of Robert M. T. Hunter in the history of his State and of the nation and to evaluate his correspondence. The excuse for such a short sketch is that Robert M. T. Hunter did not stand out as a great statesman ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

Words linked to "Annotation" : PS, quotation, postscript, annotating, N.B., credit, annotate, footnote, notation, comment, nota bene, citation, footer, nb, expanding upon, reference, mention, cite, poste restante, commentary, acknowledgment, expansion