notative

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin notātus + English -ive.[1]

Adjective

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notative (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to notation.
    • 1998, Bonnie Lyons, Bill Oliver, Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, page 14:
      In this way, fiction's a bit like a notative system in ballet, where there are instructions to tell a dancer where to step, etcetera.
    • 2010, Marc-Oliver Schuster, H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination, page 270:
      The reversed view on the relation between connotation and notations starts with a connotative frame instead of a notative center, and it proceeds “down” or “inwards.”

References

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  1. ^ notative”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.