MEANING
1. Written records or other recorded material that describe something or provide evidence for it.
2. Material explaining how a product, system, or procedure should be used or understood.
Use it for
identifying written support for a historical claim; asking what records substantiate a conclusion; describing the recording of procedures and sourcesDistinguishes recorded support for a claim from unsupported assertion, and supporting records from instructions. Academic functions: Evidence.
Words that belong together
- supporting documentation
- documentary evidence and documentation
- documentation of research procedures
On the page
The archive provides documentation of changes in land ownership.
Without documentation of the coding decisions, readers cannot reconstruct the analysis.
The software documentation explains how missing values are handled.
Incomplete documentation made the forecasting tool difficult to evaluate.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- documentation
Usage notes
Uncountable in both senses. Use pieces of documentation or documents for individual items. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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