notification

From Middle French notification, from Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

notification (countable and uncountable, plural notifications)

1. (uncountable) The act of notifying.
2. (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
3. (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.

   A notification popped up on my computer.

   I received an e-mail notification on my phone.

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notification f (plural notifications)

1. notification

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