presentation meaning
EN[pɹɛzənˈteɪʃən] [ˈpɹizənteɪʃən] [-eɪʃən]US
WPresentation
- A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is typically a demonstration, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade, or build good will.
FR présentation
- NounPLpresentationsPREpré-SUF-ation
- The act of presenting, or something presented.
- A dramatic performance.
- An award given to someone on a special occasion.
- A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
- (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician, e.g., "Thirty-four-year-old male presented in the emergency room with slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation.".
- (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
- (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
- (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
- The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
- The act of presenting, or something presented.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The presentation went badly due to the team's unpreparedness.
- The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.
- Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996 , p. 136).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- We show that these groups act acylindrically on the CAT(-1) polygonal complex naturally associated to their presentation.
- I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.
- Jones pinch-hit for Smith during today's presentation.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of presentation in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary