presentation

plural presentations · alternative archaic præsentation

1. countableuncountableThe act of presenting, or something presented.

   Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

   [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

   Synonyms: presentment

2. countableuncountableThe outward appearance or representation of a person or thing to the human mind.

   Listen, James...with the ways that you speak, dress, and comport yourself, is it any wonder to you that your presentation to young ladies as a possible mate is , to say the least, lacking?

3. countableuncountableA dramatic performance.
4. countableuncountableAn award given to someone on a special occasion.
5. countableuncountableMoney given as a wedding gift.
6. countableuncountableA lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
7. countableuncountableA slideshow created on a computer.
8. countableuncountablemedicineThe symptoms, signs, and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.

   The presentation of the thirty-four-year-old male in the emergency room was slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation.

9. countableuncountablemedicineThe position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
10. countablemainlyuncountableLGBTGender presentation; gender expression.
11. countableuncountablefencingOffering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
12. countableuncountablemathematicsThe specification of a group by generators and relators.
13. countableuncountableThe act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.

    If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

14. countableuncountableimmunologyThe preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response.