commentation

English

Noun

commentation (countable and uncountable, plural commentations)

  1. The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
    • Whewell
      the spirit of commentation
  2. The work of a commentator.
  3. (programming) Utilization of comments in source code.
    In-program commentation is another level of documentation that is compulsory, with standards being set regarding what should be included in source code. Case Studies in Algorithms and Programming‎, 1997

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for commentation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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