notification

/noʊɾɪfɪˈkeɪʃɪn/

/nəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃɪn/

Other forms: notifications

A notification is a formal notice, request, or warning. You might get a notification from your landlord that you need to shovel the snow on your sidewalk, or a notification from your school that you've won an award.

Some notifications arrive in the form of a letter in your mailbox, while others are verbal (you might get a phone call that's a notification that your cat is due for a shot at the vet), and many more are sent as emails or other electronic messages. The Latin source is notificare , "to make known," which comes from the roots notus, "known," and facere, "make."

Definitions of notification

1. noun

   informing by words
   synonyms: apprisal, telling

   types:

   notice

   advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract

   warning

   notification of something, usually in advance

   dismissal, dismission, pink slip

   official notice that you have been fired from your job

   type of:

   informing, making known

   a speech act that conveys information
2. noun

   a request for payment
   “the notification stated the grace period and the penalties for defaulting”

   synonyms: notice

   type of:

   asking, request

   the verbal act of requesting
3. noun

   an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
   synonyms: presentment

   type of:

   due process, due process of law

   (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards