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denotations

noun

Meaning

  1. The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
  2. The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as 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.
  3. The intension and extension of a word
  4. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
  5. Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
  6. (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.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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