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commentation

commentation noun: the act of making comments.

Noun

commentation (countable and uncountable, plural commentations)

  1. The act of making comments.
    • The spirit of commentation, as has already been suggested, turns to questions of taste, of metaphysics, of morals, with far more avidity to physics.1837, William Whewell, “The Commentatorial Spirit of the Middle Ages”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]...
  2. The work of a commentator.
  3. The use of comments in source code.
    • In-program commentation is another level of documentation that is compulsory, with standards being set regarding what should be included in source code.1997, Case Studies in Algorithms and Programming

Forms of commentation

pluralcommentations

Questions about commentation

What does commentation mean?
Commentation means the act of making comments.
What part of speech is commentation?
Commentation is a noun.
What is the plural of commentation?
The plural of commentation is commentations.

Words near commentation in the dictionary

  1. commentary boxes
  2. commentate
  3. commentated
  4. commentates
  5. commentating
  6. commentation
  7. commentations
  8. commentative
  9. commentator
  10. commentator's curse
  11. commentatorial

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