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documentation

/ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/US/ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/

documentation noun: something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.

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
    • Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm.1999 April 8, Friedrich Vystrcil, “The plan to invade Japan”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022

documentation meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

documentation in Hindi

something transposed from a thought to a document
प्रलेखन pralekhan
documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program
प्रलेखन pralekhan

documentation in Tamil

documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program
ஆவணமாக்கம் āvaṇamākkam

documentation in Marathi

documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program
दस्तऐवजीकरण dastaivjīkraṇ

documentation in Urdu

دستاویز کاری, حوالہ نگاری
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documentation in Bengali
নথিপত্র nothipotro
documentation in Telugu
పత్రికీకరణ patrikīkaraṇa
documentation in Malayalam
വിവരണക്കുറിപ്പുകള് vivaraṇakkuṟippukaḷ
documentation in Kannada
ದಸ್ತಾವೇಜು dastāvēju
documentation in Punjabi
ਡੌਕੂਮੈਂਟ ḍaukūmaiṇṭ
documentation in Gujarati
દસ્તાવેજીકરણ dastāvejīkraṇ, દસ્તાવેજ dastāvej
documentation in Odia
ଦଲିଲଗୁଡ଼ିକ dalilaguṛika
documentation in Assamese
আলেখ্যন alekhyon
documentation in Tagalog
dokumentasyon
documentation in Arabic
وَثَائِق waṯāʔiq
documentation in Malay
dokumentasi
documentation in Indonesian
dokumentasi, pendokumentasian
documentation in Thai
เอกสาร èek-gà-sǎan

Examples of documentation in a sentence

  • Please use the 'Well Baby Check' clinical stamp for your documentation of the next patient encounter.
  • The phrase "computationally impractical to reverse" is a statistically improbable phrase found in the Bitcoin documentation.
  • We need to metric the status of software documentation.

All 40 example sentences with documentation

Forms of documentation

pluraldocumentations

Plural of documentation: documentations

Origin of documentation

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

Borrowed from German Dokumentation.

Words formed from documentation

Words that rhyme with documentation

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Questions about documentation

What does documentation mean?
Documentation means something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
What is documentation in Hindi?
Documentation in Hindi is प्रलेखन (pralekhan). See Documentation meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is documentation?
Documentation is a noun.
How do you pronounce documentation?
Documentation is pronounced /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of documentation?
The plural of documentation is documentations.

Words near documentation in the dictionary

  1. documentarize
  2. documentary
  3. documentary hypothesis
  4. documentarylike
  5. documentate
  6. documentation
  7. documentational
  8. documentations
  9. documentative
  10. documented
  11. documentedly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: documentation (page history and authors); documentation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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