the act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.-one or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from massachusetts; a deputation.-a kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.