notational
- a word derived from notation.
Example Sentences
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Of its droll notational style — canny observations yoked to a stream-of-consciousness method — A.N.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020
It includes a notational system of peculiar abstract paintings Smith makes with colors and shapes that lead to different kinds of musical activities, although exactly how that happens was never quite clear.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2019
What Akita shares with the notational composers who dominate “Music After the Fall” is his distance from the center: noise music is, by its nature, an underground culture.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
We know it as π, the notational symbol first used by William Jones in the 18th century to denote the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2015
Newton’s method of differentiation was based on a notational trick: he let the fluxions change, but he only let them change infinitesimally.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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