Meaning

• That which represents something else.

  "The Venus of Willendorf was an early representation of the female body."

• The act of representing.

  "We are no longer happy with your representation of our company at trade events."

• The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.

  "People who cannot afford representation are eligible for government assistance."

• The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.

  "The lack of representation in the British parliament was one of the main factors behind the American Revolution."

• 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.

• A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.

• A theatrical performance.