documentation








noun

  1. the use of documentary evidence.
  2. a furnishing with documents, as to substantiate a claim or the data in a book or article.
  3. Computers. manuals, listings, diagrams, and other hard- or soft-copy written and graphic materials that describe the use, operation, maintenance, or design of software or hardware: The documentation for the driver program is displayed on the screen.

noun

  1. the act of supplying with or using documents or references
  2. the documents or references supplied
  3. the furnishing and use of documentary evidence, as in a court of law
  4. computing the written comments, graphical illustrations, flowcharts, manuals, etc, supplied with a program or software system
n.

1754, “admonition,” from Medieval Latin documentationem (nominative documentio) “admonition” (see document). Meaning “furnishing with documents or papers” is from 1884, probably from document. Meaning “collection of informational papers” is from 1927.

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