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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of depicting or portraying.
  • noun In mathematics, representation; mapping: as, conformal depiction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A painting or depicting; a representation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual
  • noun a drawing or painting

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
  • noun a graphic or vivid verbal description
  • noun a representation by picture or portraiture
  • noun representation by drawing or painting etc

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