Look up: symbol

1. Symbol
   The USS Symbol was an American Auk Class minesweeper of 890 tons displacement launched in 1942. The USS Symbol was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 18 knots and carried a complement of 105. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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2. Symbol
   A combination of barcode characters including start/stop characters, quiet zones/data characters, and check characters required by a particular symbology, which form a complete, scannable entity.
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3. Symbol
   Words or images that signify more than they literally represent e.g. the 'sun' or the 'moon'. Symbols can carry a number of different connotations . Yeats frequently used symbols in his poetry - in particular the 'tower'. As a symbol the 'tower' carries connotations of strength and sexuality, but is...
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4. Symbol
   A graphic representation of a concept that has meaning in a specific context.
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5. Symbol
   One item used to stand for or represent another – as in the case of a flag which symbolizes a nation.
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6. symbol
   [n] - an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance 2. [n] - something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
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7. Symbol
   an object which represents something other than its self
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8. symbol
   The amount of data modulated onto a radio carrier. Simple modulation is one bit per radio frequency symbol. More complex schemes allow for more then one bit per symbol. For example, if a PSK (phase shift keying) scheme allows for four phase shift values (ninety degrees apart) then it can carry two bits per symbol with values 00, 01, 10 and 11. GSM EDGE supports 3 bits per symbol.
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9. Symbol
   anything that carries a particular meaning recognised by people who share culture
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10. Symbol
    Code name for the Allied conference at Casablanca - January 1943
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11. Symbol
    refers to something that stands for or represents something else. e.g. a nation's flag is literally a piece of cloth with a distinctive design but it is also a symbol of that country's identity.
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12. Symbol
    The graphical representation of some idea. Letters and numerals are symbols
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13. Symbol
    An identity code allocated to a company by the exchange on which its stock is traded. Usually the... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/symbol.htm?id=1374&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of symbol'>more</a>
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14. symbol
    Unique abbreviations used to identify different companies traded on a stock exchange. For example, Aviva is represented by 'AV.' in London. Sometimes called a 'ticker symbol' after the electronic display (or 'ticker') which shows the price for each successive trade on an exchange, the trading volume and the share symbol
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15. Symbol
    a sign, shape or object which is used to represent something else.
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16. symbol
    A simplified design representing a part in a schematic circuit diagram.
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17. symbol
    a conventional representation of a concept or a representation of a concept upon which agreement has been reached Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • Conventional sign(character,diagram,letter,abbreviation,etc.)used in writing and other means of communicati...
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18. Symbol
    Sym'bol noun [ Latin symbolus , symbolum , Greek sy`mbolon a sign by which one knows or infers a thing, from ... to throw or put together, to compare; sy`n with + ... to throw: confer French symbole . Confer
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19. Symbol
    Sym'bol transitive verb To symbolize. [ R.] Tennyson.
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20. symbol
    1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience. 'A symbol is a sign ...
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21. symbol
    symbolization noun something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; `the eagle is a symbol of the United States`
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22. symbol
    noun an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
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23. symbol
    anything used to represent or stand for something else, such as a sign or mark
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24. symbol
    (sim´bәl) something, particularly an object, representing something else. in psychoanalytic theory, a representation or perception that replaces unconscious mental content. phallic symbol in psychoanalytic theory, any pointed or upright object that may represent the ph...
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25. Symbol
    • (v. t.) To symbolize. • (n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stan...
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