Množina: representations

ETYM French représentation, Latin representatio.
1. A presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image; SYN. mental representation, internal representation.
2. A statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting.
3. A visual or tangible rendering of someone or something.
4. An activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent.
5. The act of representing; standing in for someone or some group.
6. The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent; SYN. delegacy, agency.

Množina: representation of the peoples

Množina: Representation of the People Acts

Series of UK acts of Parliament from 1867 that extended voting rights, creating universal suffrage in 1928. The 1867 and 1884 acts are known as the second and third Reform Acts.
The 1918 act gave the vote to men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30, and the 1928 act extended the vote to women over the age of 21. Certain people had the right to more than one vote; this was abolished by the 1948 act. The 1969 act reduced the minimum age of voting to 18.

Used especially of art.

Množina: representational arts

Or figurative art; In the visual arts, images that can be recognized from the real world, even if they are distorted or appear in unusual combinations, as in Surrealism. The English artist David Hockney's portraits and swimming-pool paintings are contemporary examples of representational art. The opposite is abstract, or non-figurative, art.

Množina: representational processes

Any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else.

Množina: representationalisms

1. Doctrine that ideas rather than external objects are basis of knowledge.
2. The theory or practice of realistic representation in art