Word Direct Answers

What does "designation" mean?

Designation: Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell.
  2. 3.Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase. Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. Locke.

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