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representational

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to representation, especially to realistic graphic representation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or containing representation, in any sense; of the nature of representation.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to representation or to representationalism

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

  • adjective (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen

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Examples

  • This is what I call representational redescription.

    Deconstructing the Undecided Voter 2007

  • He believed that socialism would — and must — come to America, not through armed, bloody revolution but through popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of the state.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • For Scott, socialist democracy would come to America not through violent revolution but by popular participation in representational government and the constant expansion of a protective, activist state.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Of course, as they place these images on web pages, the shift in representational medium allows students the possibility of breaking out of Cartesian perspectivalism as a model for mediation between viewer and object viewed.

    The Picturesque and the Kodak Moment 2002

  • Olaf Peters calls the representational, highly topical style of painter Otto Dix "intransigent realism."

    Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Dix's Mix (No Quick Fix) 2010

  • One step above entry-level luxury is the standard business hotel, the Marriotts and Hyatts, followed by the so-called representational business hotels, like the St. Regis and the Crowne Plaza.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • One step above entry-level luxury is the standard business hotel, the Marriotts and Hyatts, followed by the so-called representational business hotels, like the St. Regis and the Crowne Plaza.

    What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010

  • I also know this, which is even more disconcerting: That two of the principles that have made this country exceptional -- the free press and the idea of representational government -- have inexplicably, impossibly, been, if not quelled, then stifled.

    Bad Shakespeare 2007

  • Dretske's view centers on the idea of representational systems as systems with the function of tracking features of the world (for a similar view, see Millikan 1984, 1993).

    Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

  • ∑ Reject all forms of hierarchy including capitalism, party communism, patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and so-called representational politics;

    Rochester IMC 2009

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