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Presentation   /prˌɛzəntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Presentation

noun
1.
The activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward).
2.
A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view.  Synonyms: demonstration, presentment.  "He gave the customer a demonstration"
3.
The act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it.
4.
The act of presenting a proposal.
5.
A visual representation of something.  Synonym: display.
6.
Formally making a person known to another or to the public.  Synonyms: intro, introduction.
7.
(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal.



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"Presentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... lead to the informal study of Nature and to promote a closer interest in the collections of various kinds at the School Museum. In the following year 1905 Speech-Day was celebrated for the first time for twenty-five years and was marked by the presentation of the "Style" Mathematical Prizes, which had been founded from a fund to which former pupils of Mr. Style contributed as a mark of their appreciation of his Headmastership. In 1906 the "Waugh" Prizes ...
— A History of Giggleswick School - From its Foundation 1499 to 1912 • Edward Allen Bell

... Nor can the presentation made of such considerations be with any degree of fairness regarded as evidence of unfriendliness toward our manufacturing interests or of any lack of appreciation of ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... course, that all that is but the imperfect presentation of partially apprehended, and partially revealed, and partially revealable truth. But what I desire to fix upon is that one dreary thought of this fold, into which the grim shepherd has driven his flock, and where they lie cribbed and huddled together in utter inactivity. Carry that with you ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... hair-dresser was a person of no importance, yet it happened to him to modify not only Helwyse's external aspect, but the aspect of his mind as well,—by the presentation of a new idea; for strange to say, Helwyse had never chanced to doubt that seraphim were higher than cherubim, or that independence was the only ladder to heaven. To be taught by one avowedly without intellect is humiliating; but the experience of ...
— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... and subjective causes of poverty and dependence in order that the student may see that such causes are very complex, and, as we have already said, there rarely exists a dependent family in which three or more of these causes are not found to be active. Certain questions arise from such a brief presentation as this which we may mention but cannot hope adequately to deal with. Such, for example, is the question whether the subjective causes of poverty can all be reduced to objective causes. In our opinion this cannot be done, because the subjective causes have their roots in biological ...
— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood


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