annotation

  1. Noun.  a critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
  2. Noun.  a comment added to a text.
  3. Noun.  the process of writing such comment or commentary.
  4. Noun.  (computing) metadata added to a document or program.
  5. Noun.  (genetics) information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.

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