A Representation

1. That which represents something else.
2. The act of representing.
3. (law) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
4. (politics) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
5. (mathematics) An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
6. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
7. A theatrical performance.
8. (medicine) An act of representing, i.e. presenting again

Synonyms

• (image, form): likeness