representation
/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛn.ˈteɪ.ʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
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