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Word: denotation
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Noun:
- computer science Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
- media-studies A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- linguistics|semiotics The primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word, phrase or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- logic The intension and extension of a word
- semantics Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- semiotics The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary
- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
Source: Wiktionary
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