doco

Noun

documentary (countable and uncountable, plural documentaries)

1. A film, TV program, publication etc. which presents a social, political, scientific or historical subject in a factual or informative manner.
   • Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.2014 December 4, Brooks Barnes, Michael Cieply, “Documentaries Jostle Against Oscar Obscurity”, in The New York Times, retrieved 28 Jun 2015
2. (uncountable) Such works collectively, as a genre.
   • Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 61

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Noun (1)

documentation (countable and uncountable, plural documentations)

1. (in plural, rare) Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
2. (in plural, rare) Documentary evidence and sources.
3. (in plural, rare) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
4. (in plural, rare) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

Noun (2)

documentation (plural documentations)

1. (non-native speakers' English) A documentary.
   • Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022