Documentative vs. Documentation — What's the Difference?

Of or pertaining to documents or documentation

Documentation is any communicable material that is used to describe, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an object, system or procedure, such as its parts, assembly, installation, maintenance and use. Documentation can be provided on paper, online, or on digital or analog media, such as audio tape or CDs.

The act or an instance of the supplying of documents or supporting references or records.

The documents or references so supplied.

The collation, synopsizing, and coding of printed material for future reference.

(Computers) The organized collection of records that describe the structure, purpose, operation, maintenance, and data requirements for a computer program, operating system, or hardware device.

Something transposed from a thought to a document; the written account of an idea.

Documentary evidence and sources.

Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.

(programming) Comments that explain the usage of individual functions, libraries and blocks of code.

(NNSE) A documentary.

Confirmation that some fact or statement is true

Program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs

Documentary validation;