notative
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin notātus + English -ive.[1]
Adjective
[edit]notative (not comparable)
- Of or relating to notation.
- 1998, Bonnie Lyons, Bill Oliver, Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, page 14:
- In this way, fiction's a bit like a notative system in ballet, where there are instructions to tell a dancer where to step, etcetera.
- 2010, Marc-Oliver Schuster, H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination, page 270:
- The reversed view on the relation between connotation and notations starts with a connotative frame instead of a notative center, and it proceeds “down” or “inwards.”
References
[edit]- ^ “notative”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.