representation

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

• noun The act of representing or the state of being represented.
• noun Something that represents, as.
• noun An image or likeness of something.
• noun An account or statement, as of facts, allegations, or arguments.
• noun An expostulation; a protest.
• noun A presentation or production, as of a play.
• noun The state or condition of serving as an official delegate, agent, or spokesperson.
• noun The right or privilege of being represented by delegates having a voice in a legislative body.
• noun A body of legislators that serve on behalf of a constituency.
• noun Law A statement of fact made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract.
• noun Mathematics A homomorphism from an algebraic system to a similar system of matrices.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of presenting again.
• noun The act of presenting to the mind or the view; the act of portraying, depicting, or exhibiting, as in imagination, in a picture, or on the stage; portrayal.
• noun The image, picture, or scene presented, depicted, or exhibited.
• noun A statement or an assertion made in regard to some matter or circumstance; a verbal description or statement: as, to obtain money by false representations.
• noun An expostulatory statement of facts, arguments, or the like; remonstrance.
• noun In psychology, the word chiefly used to translate the German Vorstellung, used in that language to translate the English word idea. See idea, 2 and 3.
• noun A singular conception; a thought or idea of something as having a definite place in space at a definite epoch in time; the image of an object produced in consciousness.
• noun A representative cognition; a mediate or vicarious cognition.
• noun In law: The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance; the personating of another, as an heir, executor, or administrator.
• noun More specifically, the coming in of children of a deceased heir apparent, devisee dying before the testator, etc., to take the share their parent would have taken had he survived, not as succeeding as the heirs of the parent, but as together representing him among the other heirs of the ancestor. See representative, n., 3.
• noun Share or participation, as in legislation, deliberation, management, etc., by means of regularly chosen or appointed delegates; or, the system by which communities have a voice in the direction of their own affairs, and in the making of their own laws, by means of chosen delegates: as, parliamentary representation.
• noun A representative or delegate, or a number of representatives collectively.
• noun Synonyms Show; delineation, portraiture, likeness, resemblance.

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

• noun The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
• noun That which represents.
• noun A likeness, a picture, or a model.
• noun A dramatic performance
• noun A description or statement.
• noun The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society.
• noun (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
• noun The state of being represented.

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

• noun That which represents another.
• noun law The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
• noun politics The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
• noun mathematics An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces.
• noun A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
• noun A theatrical performance.

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

• noun a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract
• noun a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
• noun a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency
• noun the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body
• noun the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent
• noun a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
• noun a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
• noun the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf
• noun an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
• noun a performance of a play