commentation

The act of making comments.

Noun

  1. The act of making comments.
    • The spirit of commentation, as has already been suggested, turns to questions of taste, of metaphysics, of morals, with far more avidity to physics. - 1837, William Whewell, “The Commentatorial Spirit of the Middle...
  2. The work of a commentator.
  3. The use 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. - 1997, Case Studies in Algorithms and Programming:

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