A note can be an apostille.
It is in Latin that we can find the etymological origin of the term anotation that concerns us now. Specifically, it is the result of the sum of three Latin components:
• The prefix “ad”, which means “towards”.
• The word “cautus”, which is synonymous with “careful”.
• The suffix «-tion», which is used to indicate «cause and effect».
What is a dimension
Annotation is a concept with two main uses: on the one hand, it refers to the comment or apostille that complements a text or makes some clarification ; On the other hand, it is the reference that indicates a certain level or measurement within a plane .
If we focus on the first meaning, the notes are usually included in the margins of the writings with some type of call that lets the reader know that they will find more information about the main contents. Suppose an essay on American literature mentions Edgar Allan Poe as a reference. A note could explain the reason for this inclusion and mention the reasons that led to choosing this writer to talk about North American literature.
In oral language, an aside is a complementary comment.
Its use in scripts
In the scripts of plays or films, the stage directions provide information of interest to the actors and those responsible for the staging. These notes can mention how the characters should move, what their attitude is, what intonation to choose to pronounce the script, etc.
Of this type of notes in texts, it is worth highlighting the following hallmarks:
• They must be written either in capital letters or in italics, in the case of those undertaken in theatrical works. In this way they can be clearly differentiated from the rest of the text.
• In the rest of the literary documents, those are done using both the italics mentioned and elements such as brackets or parentheses.
An example of a dimension in everyday language
Directions are also used in everyday life as part of oral language . A dialogue with notes may be as follows:
– Yesterday Mabel, the obese old woman who lives in the house next door, visited me.
– I already know who Mabel is: the comment on her physical condition was unnecessary.
The concept in technical drawing
As for the second meaning of the notion, the dimension is a type of clarification that is made within a technical drawing to specify the measurement of a certain property of some element. It is important that the dimensions are easy to understand and not mixed with the lines of the plan or diagram .
In this case, we have to explain that the dimensions can be fundamentally grouped into two sets: those of location, which determine the relationships established between the components that give shape to an object, or those of dimension, which come to record of values such as distance, width or thickness, among other factors.
All this without forgetting that there are other dimensions such as chain, tabulated or combined ones.
No less important is that the dimensions carried out in this type of documents or drawings are made up of elements such as symbols, the extension line, the dimension line, the note lines or the dimension figure.