notebook

noun

1. A book (physical or digital) in which notes or memoranda are written.

   “Near-synonyms: notepad, rough book, writing pad, logbook, journal”

   “For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth.”

   “With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.”

2. (attributive, sometimes)A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

   “We have found the use of Jupyter notebooks to be a convenient way of sharing work and code in a compact and reproducible manner. Jupyter notebooks are easy to update and adapt over time compared to a static CD-ROM.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).

   “Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.”