documentation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑkjəmənˈteɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɒkjʊmənˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

From document +‎ -ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.^[1]

documentation (countable and uncountable, plural documentations) (very rare in the plural)

1. Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.
2. Documentary evidence and sources.
3. (computing, mechanical engineering) Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
4. (programming) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

• document

From German Dokumentation.

documentation (plural documentations)

1. (non-native speakers' English) A documentary.
   • 1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 1 May 2022:

     Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

   • 1999 April 8, Friedrich Vystrcil, “The plan to invade Japan”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 1 May 2022:

     Yesterday I watched a documentation about the Dresden fire storm.

   • 2010 September 16, Volker Bartheld, “This is Germany calling...”, in rec.motorcycles.dirt‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 1 May 2022:

     Yesterday, I watched a documentation about the "boss" of a German allot settlement who told other gardeners what plants to grow and what weed to cut. GEEZE! GET A LIVE! I felt tempted paying a visit to them and leave a bunch of knobby tire marks on this sucker's lawn...

• “documentation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

documentation f (plural documentations)

1. documentation (written account)

• document
• documenter

• enregistrement

• “documentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.