Definition of Representation

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Representation

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

That which represents.

A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.

A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.

The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.

Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.

The state of being represented.

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Representation Quotations

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Rush Limbaugh

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Charles Baudelaire

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
John Frusciante

Representation Translations

representation in Danish is figur
representation in Dutch is beeld, afbeelding, figuur
representation in German is Darstellung, Vertretung
representation in Italian is rappresentanza, presentazione

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