Editing Notation system (section)

{{Short description|Convention where symbols represent concepts}}
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In [[linguistics]] and [[semiotics]], a '''notation system''' is a [[system]] of graphics or [[symbol]]s, [[Character_(symbol)|character]]s and abbreviated [[Expression (language)|expression]]s, used (for example) in [[Artistic disciplines|artistic]] and [[scientific discipline]]s to represent technical facts and quantities by [[Convention (norm)|convention]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ZPQVuSgDAkC&pg=PT337 | title=Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Crystal, David | year=2011| isbn=9781444356755 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/notation | title=Notation | publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica | work=[[Merriam-Webster Dictionary]] | access-date=6 September 2013}}</ref> Therefore, a notation is a collection of related symbols that are each given an [[arbitrary]] meaning, created to facilitate [[structured communication]] within a [[domain knowledge]] or [[field of study]].

Standard notations refer to general agreements in the way things are written or denoted. The term is generally used in technical and scientific areas of study like [[mathematics]], [[physics]], [[chemistry]] and [[biology]], but can also be seen in areas like [[business]], [[economics]] and [[music]].