Notification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Notification \No`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. notification. See
     {Notify}.]
     1. The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making
        known; especially, the act of giving official notice or
        information to the public or to individuals, corporations,
        companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other


        means.
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     2. Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The writing which communicates information; an
        advertisement, or citation, etc.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  notification
       n 1: an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own
            initiative [syn: {presentment}]
       2: informing by words [syn: {telling}, {apprisal}]
       3: a request for payment; "the notification stated the grace
          period and the penalties for defaulting" [syn: {notice}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "notification":
     account, acquaintance, admonishment, admonition, alarm,
     announcement, annunciation, bench warrant, blue book, briefing,
     bulletin, bulletin board, capias, caution, caveat, circular,
     communication, communique, conveyance, data, datum, death warrant,
     declaration, deterrent example, directory, disclosure, dispatch,
     edict, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, example,
     facts, factual information, familiarization, fieri facias,
     final notice, final warning, gen, general information, giving,
     guidebook, habere facias possessionem, handout, hard information,
     hint, impartation, imparting, impartment, incidental information,
     info, information, injunction, instruction, intelligence,
     interdict, knowledge, lesson, light, mandamus, mandate,
     mandatory injunction, manifesto, mention, message, mittimus,
     monition, moral, nisi prius, notice, object lesson, position paper,
     precept, presentation, process, proclamation, program, programma,
     prohibitory injunction, promotional material, pronouncement,
     pronunciamento, proof, public notice, publication, publicity,
     release, report, search warrant, sharing, sidelight, statement,
     telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, threat, tip-off,
     transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ukase,
     ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, warrant,
     warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, white book, white paper,
     word, writ