notification

The act of notifying.

Noun

  1. The act of notifying.
  2. A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
  3. A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
    • A notification popped up on my computer.
    • I received an e-mail notification on my phone.
    • Watch for notifications on the top screen[.] - 2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 9:

Origin

From Middle French notification, from Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō.

Forms

notifications

Derived

casualty notification counternotification death notification denotification e-notification misnotification nonnotification notification appliance notification area notification bell prenotification push notification renotification toast notification undernotification