documentation
Americannoun
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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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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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Damen struggled with defence ministry demands for submissions to be on paper as well as for documentation to be in German, the paper reported in April, citing industry sources.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026
The state asked each recipient to preserve all documentation it might have previously turned over to the FBI or the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
That individual supplied “additional information, and a new investigation has been opened based on documentation received Sunday,” Harris said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
Keep all your documentation, including physician’s notes and recommendations.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 15, 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
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