notebook

plural notebooks · alternative note book

1. A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

   Near-synonyms: notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal

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   For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.

   1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 125, column 1

   With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

   1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 69

   Synonyms: by-book, notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal

2. attributivesometimescomputingA kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

   We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.

   2016, David Ming, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt, Attainable Region Theory, page 317

3. abbreviationellipsiscomputingEllipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).

   Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.

   2006, Corey Sandler, Upgrading and Fixing Laptops For Dummies, page 8