meaning of documentation

1. documentation The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products see also tree-killer. Hackers seldom read paper documentation and too often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and on-line. A common comment on this predilection is "You cant grep dead trees". See drool-proof paper, verbiage, treeware. [Jargon File]
2. documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this this view is the work of ">Jones"

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