Look up: literal

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   literal
   [adj] - lacking stylistic embellishment 2. [adj] - of the clearest kind 3. [adj] - limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text 4. [adj] - (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original 5. [adj] - without interpretation or embellishment
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   Literal
   A typesetting error involving one letter.
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   literal
   (programming) A constant made available to a process, by inclusion in the executable text. Most modern systems do not allow texts to modify themselves during execution, so literals are indeed constant; their value is written at compile-time and is read-only at run time. In contrast, values placed in variables or files and accessed by the process v...
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   literal
   in a source program,an explicit representation of the value of an item,which value must be unaltered during any translation of the source program Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • an atom,e.g.9,or the negation of an atom,e.g.NOT 9 Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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   Literal
   Lit'er·al (- a l) adjective [ French litéral , littéral , Latin litteralis , literalis , from littera , litera , a letter. See Letter .] 1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. « It hath but one simple literal sense whose light t ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/49
   
   
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   Literal
   Lit'er·al noun Literal meaning. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/49
   
   
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   literal
   adjective avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); `it`s the literal truth`
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   literal
   adjective without interpretation or embellishment; `a literal depiction of the scene before him`
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   literal
   adjective limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; `a literal translation`
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    Literal
    `Literal` may refer to: *Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense. *Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text. *Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars. *Literal (mathematical logic), an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions. *Any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, an obj...
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    Literal
    • (a.) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters. • (a.) According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. • (n.) Literal meaning. • (a.) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons. • (a.) Following the le...
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