ETYM Late Lat. documentum, from docere to teach: cf. French document. Related to Docile.
1. A written account of ownership or obligation.
2. Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks.
3. Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature); SYN. written document, papers.
1. Pièce.
2. Renseignement.
3. (Droit) Titre.
1. Feuille.
2. Document.
3. Prise.
1. To record in detail.
2. To support with evidence.
In computing, data associated with a particular application. For example, a text document might be produced by a word processor and a graphics document might be produced with a CAD package. An OMR or OCR document is a paper document containing data that can be directly input to the computer using a document reader.
Any self-contained piece of work created with an application program and, if saved on disk, given a unique filename by which it can be retrieved. Documents are generally thought of as word-processed materials only. To a computer, however, data is nothing more than a collection of characters, so a spreadsheet or a graphic is as much a document as is a letter or report. In the Macintosh environment in particular, a document is any user-created work named and saved as a separate file.
To explain or annotate something, such as a program or a procedure.