Representation may refer to:
Law and politics
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Representation (politics)
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin, Hanna Pitkin's ''Concept of Representation'' (1967).
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, political activities undertaken by elected representatives, as well as other theories
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Representative democracy
Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy or electoral democracy, is a type of democracy where elected delegates represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies func ...
, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people
* Representation in contract law, a pre-contractual statement that may (if untrue) result in liability for
misrepresentation
In common law jurisdictions, a misrepresentation is a False statements of fact, false or misleading''Royal Mail Case, R v Kylsant'' 931Question of law, statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then in ...
* Labor representation, or worker representation, the work of a
union representative
A union representative, union steward, or shop steward is an employee of an organization or company who represents and defends the interests of their fellow employees as a trades/labour union member and official. Rank-and-file members of the un ...
who represents and defends the interests of fellow labor union members
* Legal representation, provided by a barrister, lawyer, or other
advocate
An advocate is a professional in the field of law. List of country legal systems, Different countries and legal systems use the term with somewhat differing meanings. The broad equivalent in many English law–based jurisdictions could be a ba ...
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Lobbying
Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agency, regulatory agencies or judiciary. Lobbying involves direct, face-to-face contact and is carried out by va ...
or interest representation, attempts to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials
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No taxation without representation", a 1700s slogan that summarized one of the American colonists' 27 colonial grievances in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution
* Permanent representation, a type of
diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes ...
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Representation (arts)
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else.Mitchell, W. 1995, "Representation", in F Lentricchia & T McLaughlin (eds), ''Critical Terms for Literary Study'', 2nd edn, University of Chicago Press, Chica ...
, use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else
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''Representation'' (journal), an academic journal covering representative democracy
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Depiction
Depiction is reference conveyed through pictures. A picture refers to its object through a non-linguistic two-dimensional scheme, and is distinct from writing or notation. A depictive two-dimensional scheme is called a picture plane and may be co ...
, non-verbal representation through two-dimensional images (pictures) of things seen, remembered or imagined
Cognitive science
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Representation (psychology), a hypothetical 'internal' cognitive symbol that represents external reality
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Knowledge representation
Knowledge representation (KR) aims to model information in a structured manner to formally represent it as knowledge in knowledge-based systems whereas knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, or KR²) also aims to understand, reason, and ...
, the study of formal ways to describe knowledge
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Representation theory (linguistics) Representation theory (RT) is a theoretical linguistic framework in the generative tradition, created and developed by Edwin S. Williams – chiefly in an eponymous monograph of 2003. Williams compares it with other frameworks such as Noam Chom ...
, a theoretical framework in generative linguistics
Mathematics
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Representation (mathematics), a very general relationship that expresses similarities between objects
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Group representation
In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations of a vector space to itself (i.e. vector space automorphisms); in particular, they can be used ...
, describes abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces
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Representation of a Lie group, a linear action of a Lie group on a vector space
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Lie algebra representation
In the mathematical field of representation theory, a Lie algebra representation or representation of a Lie algebra is a way of writing a Lie algebra as a set of matrices (or endomorphisms of a vector space) in such a way that the Lie bracket i ...
, a way of writing a Lie algebra as a set of matrices in such a way that the Lie bracket is given by the commutator
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Multiple representations (mathematics education)
In mathematics education, a representation is a way of encoding an idea or a relationship, and can be both internal (e.g., mental construct) and external (e.g., graph). Thus multiple representations are ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer t ...
, ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer to the same mathematical entity
Other uses
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Representation (chemistry), graphic representation of the molecular structure of a chemical compound
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Social representation, a stock of values, ideas, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities
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Representative sample
In this statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset or a statistical sample (termed sample for short) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole ...
in statistics
See also
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Data visualization
Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...
, the creation and study of the visual representation of data
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Reprazent, a British drum and bass group
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Represent (disambiguation)
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