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documentation¹

  • /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/ UK
  • /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ US, dialectal
  • /ˌdɑkjəmənˈteɪʃən/ US, dialectal
  • /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/ Canada, dialectal
  • /ˌdɔkjʊmenˈtæɪʃən/ Australia
  • /ˌdɒkjʊmenˈtæɪʃən/ New Zealand
  • [ˌdɔ̟kjʊmenˈtæɪʃən] New Zealand

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

Where it comes from

From document + -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.

noun documentations

  1. countable, in plural, rare, uncountable Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
  2. countable, in plural, rare, uncountable Documentary evidence and sources.
  3. countable, in plural, rare, uncountable Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
  4. countable, in plural, rare, uncountable Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

documentation²

  • /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/ UK
  • /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ US, dialectal
  • /ˌdɑkjəmənˈteɪʃən/ US, dialectal
  • /ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈteɪʃən/ Canada, dialectal
  • /ˌdɔkjʊmenˈtæɪʃən/ Australia
  • /ˌdɒkjʊmenˈtæɪʃən/ New Zealand
  • [ˌdɔ̟kjʊmenˈtæɪʃən] New Zealand

Rhymes with -eɪʃən

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Dokumentation.

noun documentations

  1. A documentary. Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: certification, corroboration, support, software documentation, dossier, document, file, backgrounder, docs, cataloguing, library, documentary, handout, reference, literature, text

Translations

Every language

noun something transposed from a thought to a document

Españoldocumentación
हिन्दीप्रलेखन pralekhan
Русскийдокумента́ция dokumentácija
עבריתתיעוד, תִּעוּד ti'úd

noun documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program

Españoldocumentación
한국어문서 munseo, 문서화 munseohwa
日本語文書 bunsho, ドキュメンテーション dokyumentēshon
中文文檔 /文档 wéndàng, 文件 wénjiàn
हिन्दीप्रलेखन pralekhan
Portuguêsdocumentação
Françaisdocumentation
DeutschDokumentation
Italianodocumentazione
Ελληνικάτεκμηρίωση tekmiríosi
Românădocumentație
Русскийдокумента́ция dokumentácija
العربيةوَثَائِق waṯāʔiq
עבריתתיעוד, תִּעוּד ti'úd

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MLA

"documentation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/documentation. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

APA

documentation. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/documentation

Chicago

"documentation." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 5, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/documentation.

BibTeX
@misc{documentation_2026,
  title = {documentation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/documentation},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}