Notation and Flag

noun

• A technical system of symbols used to represent special things.
  • synonyms: notational system
• A comment or instruction (usually added. )
  • usage: "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the address on the envelope"
  • synonyms: note, annotation
• The activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters. .

• (n.) Literal or etymological signification.
• (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
• (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
• (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures or characters.
• (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. especially, the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity or operations.
• (n.) Literal or etymological signification.

noun

• Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
• A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc..
  • synonyms: masthead
• Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
  • synonyms: iris, fleur-de-lis, sword lily
• A rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device.
  • synonyms: signal flag
• Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green.
  • synonyms: pin
• Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones.
  • synonyms: flagstone
• A conspicuously marked or shaped tail.

verb

• Communicate or signal with a flag.
• Provide with a flag.
  • usage: "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
• Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.
  • synonyms: sag, droop, swag
• Decorate with flags.
  • usage: "the building was flagged for the holiday"
• Become less intense.
  • synonyms: ease up, ease off, slacken off

• (v.t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
• (n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc. or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
• (v.t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
• (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
• (n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
• (v.i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
• (v.t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
• (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
• (v.t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.
• (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
• (n.) A flat stone used for paving.
• (n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
• (v.i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
• (n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
• (v.t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
• (v.t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.
• (v.t.) To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
• (n.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also flag feather.

Flag is a pattern reflecting price fluctuations within a narrow range, generating a rectangular area on a graph both prior to and after sharp rises or declines.