notation

柯林斯词典

1. N-VAR A system of notation is a set of written symbols that are used to represent something such as music or mathematics. 符號[usu supp N]
Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and space represents a note in this scale. 樂譜爲C大音堦而搆思，在這個音堦中的每一個線和間都代表一個音符。
...some other abstract notation system like a computer language. …一些如計算機語言的其它抽象符號系統。