Other forms: presentations
A presentation is standing in front of the class and explaining your topic with slides. Give a presentation, presentation skills, a slide presentation.
The commonest fault is putting everything on the slides and then reading them, which makes both the speaker and the slides redundant — the slides are for what cannot be said. In medicine, presentation is how a condition first appears. Note present, from the Latin for being before somebody.
1nounpresentationA talk explaining a topic, usually with slides.
“I have to give a presentation to the whole class on Friday.”
presentation is a talk.
Latin praesentatio comes from praesentare, to place before, from praesens, present. Present and represent come from the same being before.
Latin
praesentātiōnem
Old French
presentation
English, today
presentation
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From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”). Morphologically present + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA