Definition of "argumentation"

argumentation

noun
usually uncountable, plural argumentations
1. Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
2. An exchange of arguments
3. The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
  Quotations
  An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.
  2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, page 24