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free representation

  1. [ESRI software] In ArcGIS, the representation of a single feature that has been disconnected from its representation rule to create an independent rule whose structure can be changed, allowing full freedom of display. Geometric effects within the rule can be converted so that their results become static parts of the feature representation.