Definition of "presentation"

presentation

/ˌpɹɛzənˈteɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural presentations
1. The act of presenting, or something presented.
  Quotations
  Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
2. A dramatic performance.
3. An award given to someone on a special occasion.
4. Money given as a wedding gift.
5. A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
6. (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.
7. (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
8. (mainly LGBT) Gender presentation; gender expression.
9. (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
10. (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
11. The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
  Quotations
  If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
12. (immunology) The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response.