| official immunity | personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authority |
| notation | the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters |
legal document
legal instrument
official document
instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |
note annotation
notation | a comment or instruction (usually added), his notes were appended at the end of the article, he added a short notation to the address on the envelope |
notation
notational system | a technical system of symbols used to represent special things |
| mathematical notation | a notation used by mathematicians |
positional notation
positional representation system | a numeration system in which a real number is represented by an ordered set of characters where the value of a character depends on its position |
| binary notation | any notation that uses characters (usually
and ) |
| decimal notation | any notation that usesdifferent characters (usually the digits
to ) |
| octal notation | any mathematical notation that uses different characters (usually the digits
to ) |
| duodecimal notation | any notation that uses different characters |
hexadecimal notation
sexadecimal notation | any notation that uses different characters |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
floating-point notation
floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
| infix notation | a notation for forming mathematical expressions using parentheses and governed by rules of operator precedence, operators are dispersed among the operands |
| parenthesis-free notation | a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components |
prefix notation
Lukasiewicz notation
Polish notation | a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands |
postfix notation
suffix notation
reverse Polish notation | a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator follows its operands |
| musical notation | (music) notation used by musicians |
| chemical notation | a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry |
bureaucrat
administrative official | an official of a bureaucracy |
| elected official | official who won the office in a free election |
| football official | an official who enforces the rules at a football game |
legate
official emissary | a member of a legation |
| official | someone who administers the rules of a game or sport, the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling |
| official functionary | a worker who holds or is invested with an office |
Federal
Fed
federal official | any federal law-enforcement officer |
| official | having official authority or sanction, official permission, an official representative |
| official | verified officially, the election returns are now official |
| official | (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution |
official
prescribed | conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline, in prescribed order |
| official | of or relating to an office, official privileges |