Representation
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Representation can refer to:
Law
- Representation (politics), one's ability to influence the political process
- Representative democracy
- (Permanent) Representation, a type of diplomatic mission
- Representation of the International NGO – the representative office of the INGO mission
- Legal representation or advocacy is provided by lawyers
- Lobbying for a group of individuals or companies
- In unionised workplaces, shop stewards and union executives can represent employees
- In contract law, a representation is a pre-contractual statement that does not amount to a term of the contract, but which may (if untrue) result in liability for misrepresentation
- A fiction of the law which causes a person to enter into another's right of succession, called 'representation,' and also called 'substitution'.
Arts
- Representation (arts), the depiction and ethical concerns of construction in visual arts and literature.
- Depiction is a form of non-verbal representation in which two-dimensional images (pictures) are regarded as viable substitutes for things seen, remembered or imagined.
Social sciences
- Social representation, a stock of values, ideas, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities
- Representation (journal), an academic journal
- Representation theory (linguistics), a theoretical framework in generative linguistics
Science
- Data visualization
- Representation (chemistry)
- Representation (psychology), a hypothetical 'internal' cognitive symbol that represents external reality
- Representation (systemics)
Mathematics
- Group representation, describes abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces
- Knowledge representation, the study of formal ways to describe knowledge
- Multiple representations (mathematics education)
- Representation (mathematics), a very general relationship that expresses similarities between objects
- Representations of Lie groups
- Representations of Lie algebras
See also
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