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commentations

commentations is the plural of commentation.

Meaning of commentation

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

Questions about commentations

What is commentations the plural of?
Commentations is the plural of commentation.

Words near commentations in the dictionary

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

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