notification
Pluralnotifications
- 1A message, alert, or signal a system or app displays to inform the user of an event, update, or new message.
The app sent a notification reminding her of the upcoming meeting.
He cleared dozens of notifications that had piled up overnight.
Similaralert, reminder, message
Note
Computing has narrowed the word to something you see. A notification pops up on a screen, arrives on a phone, or piles up unread overnight. Here it is fully countable and often takes a modifier naming its channel, as in an e-mail notification. Where the general notice simply informs, this one arrives from outside whatever you are doing. It is something you receive and then clear.
- 2A specific piece of information that serves to make someone aware of something.
The tenant received written notification that the rent would increase next month.
Customers got a notification explaining the new return policy.
Similarnotice, message, announcement, communication
- 3The action or process of formally making someone aware of something.
Notification of the verdict was sent to all parties involved.
Prompt notification of hazards is essential in any workplace.
Similarnotice, announcement, warning
Note
The process word, usually used without an article: notification of the verdict, prompt notification of hazards. It came into English from Middle French notification, through Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō. When the notice itself is meant, English switches to the countable form, a notification or several notifications, which is the single notice.
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Origin
The word came through Middle French notification and Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō.