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'''Representation''' may refer to:<br />
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==Law and politics==<br />
*[[Representation (politics)]], political activities undertaken by elected representatives, as well as other theories<br />
** [[Representative democracy]], type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people<br />
* Representation in contract law, a pre-contractual statement that may (if untrue) result in liability for [[misrepresentation]]<br />
* Labor representation, or worker representation, the work of a [[union representative]] who represents and defends the interests of fellow labor union members<br />
* Legal representation, provided by a barrister, lawyer, or other [[advocate]]<br />
* [[Lobbying]] or interest representation, attempts to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials<br />
* "[[No taxation without representation]]", a 1700s slogan that summarized one of the American colonists' 27 colonial grievances in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution<br />
* Permanent representation, a type of [[diplomatic mission]]<br />
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==Arts, entertainment, and media==<br />
* [[Representation (arts)]], use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else<br />
* [[Representation (journal)|''Representation'' (journal)]], an academic journal covering representative democracy<br />
* [[Depiction]], non-verbal representation through two-dimensional images (pictures) of things seen, remembered or imagined<br />
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==Cognitive science==<br />
* [[Representation (psychology)]], a hypothetical 'internal' cognitive symbol that represents external reality<br />
* [[Knowledge representation]], the study of formal ways to describe knowledge<br />
* [[Representation theory (linguistics)]], a theoretical framework in generative linguistics<br />
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==Mathematics==<br />
* [[Representation (mathematics)]], a very general relationship that expresses similarities between objects<br />
** [[Group representation]], describes abstract groups in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces<br />
** [[Representation of a Lie group]], a linear action of a Lie group on a vector space<br />
** [[Lie algebra representation]], a way of writing a Lie algebra as a set of matrices in such a way that the Lie bracket is given by the commutator<br />
* [[Multiple representations (mathematics education)]], ways to symbolize, to describe and to refer to the same mathematical entity<br />
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==Other uses==<br />
* [[Representation (chemistry)]], graphic representation of the molecular structure of a chemical compound<br />
* [[Social representation]], a stock of values, ideas, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities<br />
*[[Representative sample]] in statistics<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Data visualization]], the creation and study of the visual representation of data<br />
* [[Reprazent]], a British drum and bass group<br />
* [[Represent (disambiguation)]]<br />
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