Other forms: documentations
Documentation is the papers that record or prove something. Supporting documentation, the documentation is missing, technical documentation.
In software it means the written explanation of how a system works, and it is famously the first thing dropped when time runs short and the first thing wanted when somebody new arrives. In travel and law it means the papers themselves.
1noundocumentationThe papers that record or prove something.
“You will need to bring documentation, such as a passport and a recent bill.”
documentation is a record.
From document, from Latin documentum, a lesson or proof, from docere, to teach.
Medieval Latin
documentātio
English, today
documentation
From document + ation or Medieval Latin documentātio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA