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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: ius praesentandi), 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

See also

• Presentation High School (disambiguation), several schools

• Disambiguation pages