notational system

1. 1.

   a technical system of symbols used to represent special things

   Synonymsnotation

   Broaderwriting

   Narrowermathematical notationmusical notationchoreographychemical notation

Questions about notational system

What does notational system mean?

notational system means "a technical system of symbols used to represent special things".

What is another word for notational system?

Close synonyms include notation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is notational system a common word?

notational system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.