symbol
/ˈsɪmbəl/
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object; A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing
- plural
- symbols
Meanings
- 1
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object
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A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing
- 3
A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and indexrare
- 4
A summary of a dogmatic statement of faithrare
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The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axesrare
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That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed dutyrare
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Share; allotmentrare
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An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source coderare
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A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful informationrare