Presentation is the process of presenting the content of a topic to an audience.

Presentation may also refer to:

Biology and medicine

  • Presentation (medical) referring to the initial symptoms or signs
  • Presentation (obstetrics) in obstetrics
  • Lordosis behavior, a body posture adopted by some mammals during estrus that is commonly referred to as "presenting"

Computing and technology

  • Corel Presentations, a slideshow, presentation and graphics editing software similar to PowerPoint
  • Presentation program, computer software used to make presentations, such as Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Presentation (software), an application used to create neurobehavioral experiments
  • Presentation layer, in computer networking, the sixth level of the seven layer OSI model

Religion

  • Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, in the Bible, when Jesus was brought to the temple forty days after his birth
  • Presentation of Mary, an event recognized by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, mentioned in the Infancy Narrative of the Gospel of James
  • Right of presentation (Latin: ), a right of patronage in the canon law of the Catholic Church

Other uses

  • Presentation (philosophy), a synonym for mental representation
  • Food presentation, the aesthetics of the appearance of food
  • Presentation of a group, in mathematics, a way to describe a group
  • Presentation (book), a 1993 collection of stories by Russian writer Andrei Gusev
  • "The Presentation" (Hangin' with Mr. Cooper), a 1992 television episode
  • "Presentation", the fourth section of the 1976 Rush song "2112"

See also

  • Presentation High School (disambiguation), several schools