A message or announcement sent to the user or administrator of a system. The recipient may be a human or an automated notification manager.
— Computer ScienceInformation displayed to a user about someone else adding him or her to a contact list, a contact’s offline or online status, a missed conversation, voice mail message, service problem, or other item.
— Computer ScienceA communication generated by the occurrence of an event that a system or user asynchronously sends for receipt. A notification message is a communication that is intended to be read by a recipient.
— Computer Science