documentation

A documentary.

Noun countable, in plural

  1. Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
  2. Documentary evidence and sources.
  3. Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
  4. Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

Origin

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

Forms

documentations

Related

document

Derived

doc documentational e-documentation overdocumentation photodocumentation redocumentation teledocumentation

Noun Entry 2

  1. A documentary.
    • Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole...
    • Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm. - 1999 April 8, Friedrich Vystrcil, “The plan to invade Japan”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
    • Yesterday, I watched a documentation about the "boss" of a German allot settlement who told other gardeners what plants to grow and what weed to cut. GEEZE! GET A LIVE! I felt tempted paying a visit to them and leave a...

Origin

Etymology tree German Dokumentationbor. English documentation Borrowed from German Dokumentation.

Forms

documentations