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say it: prez-uhn-TAY-shuhn
presentation is a noun meaning "the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward)". It carries 7 recorded senses.
the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward)
“she gave the trophy but he made the presentation”
a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
“the presentation of new data”
“he gave the customer a demonstration”
the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it
“he prepared his presentation carefully in advance”
the act of presenting a proposal
a visual representation of something
formally making a person known to another or to the public
(obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal
“Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
obstetrics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for presentation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.