documentation
Americannoun
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documentations
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the use of documentary evidence.
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a furnishing with documents, as to substantiate a claim or the data in a book or article.
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Computers. manuals, listings, diagrams, and other hard- or soft-copy written and graphic materials that describe the use, operation, maintenance, or design of software or hardware.
The documentation for the driver program is displayed on the screen.
noun
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the act of supplying with or using documents or references
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the documents or references supplied
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the furnishing and use of documentary evidence, as in a court of law
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computing the written comments, graphical illustrations, flowcharts, manuals, etc, supplied with a program or software system
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Origin of documentation
Explanation
Your driver's license is documentation of your age, address, and that you have passed the tests required to drive a car. Documentation is certifiable proof, or a set of official documents. Your new computer probably came with a packet of documentation that shows you how to use it and explains what to do when it breaks. In this sense, documentation means the official documents of your computer. If you are the person preparing a packet of information about how to use a computer program to keep attendance at school, you are preparing the documentation of that process.
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His $250,000 deposit guaranteed him one of 1,000 “Founders Series” Roadsters, according to documentation he provided to The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She asked the FCC to provide further documentation on its claim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Officers seized cash, documentation, digital devices and other high-value items.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The agency said that in Chad, 319,000 refugees faced registration delays, leaving them without the documentation to access services, while around 233,000 children could lose child protection services.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
But all the pages and pages of documentation they had gathered from the lawyers and geologists and archeologists didn’t help them in the end.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Cote never expected her family’s rudimentary documentations to be used for any kind of analysis.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021
What might seem like insider jokes about art, branding and “lifestyles” ultimately resulted in cringe-worthy documentations of downtown New York’s transformation into a retail mecca, with artists pushed out by gentrification.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
“You have to produce some documentations supporting your contention.”
From US News ● May 18, 2016
Douglas did not respond to repeated interview requests from The Associated Press, but campaign spokeswoman Sandra Dowling said Friday that “there are plenty of documentations to completely validate Diane Douglas’ position on Common Core.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
If we get enough, we will re-release this file, with the lengthy documentations at the end of the file contained herein.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond
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