notation

notation
noun

[mass noun]a series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics
书面符号系统
algebraic notation.
代数符号。
[count noun]new terminologies and notations.
新术语和符号。
a note or annotation
注释，评注
he noticed the notations in the margin.
他注意到了页边空白处的评注。
short for scale of notation (see scale in sense 2)
scale of notation 的简称 (见 scale义项2)

派生
notational
adjective
语源

late 16th cent.: from Latin notatio(n-), from the verb notare, from nota 'mark'