representation

Representation stands for:

• Representation (philosophy) , the relation between a vehicle conveying meanings (e.g. words, brain functions, physiological components) and a semantic content
• Representation (politics) , the actions of individuals for a political unit
• Representation (psychology) , the mental conception of the outside world
• Representation (neuroscience) the distribution of brain functions to specific brain areas
• Representation (political and social sciences) , the befitting appearance within a social role or political function, also in terms of cultural studies, for example as a representation architecture
• Representative architecture, representative construction for governments, monarchs, institutions and companies
• Data representation , it defines the way in which media - such as audio, graphics and video as well as program code - are represented by data
• Knowledge representation , deals with the formal mapping of knowledge
• in mathematics: a less common term for the representation of a group or other mathematical structure (English representation )

See also:

• Representation
• Representativeness

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.