n.
- A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
- Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
- A writing that contains information.
- Computer Science. A piece of work created with an application, as by a word processor.
- Computer Science. A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
- Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
- To furnish with a document or documents.
- To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
- To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
[Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docēre, to teach.]
documental doc'u·ment'al (-mĕn'tl) adj.documenter doc'u·ment'er n.
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