Literal
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Literal may refer to:
- Literal and figurative languageLiteral and figurative languageLiteral and figurative language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Literal language refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning. Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component...
, taken in a non-figurative sense - Literal translationLiteral translationLiteral translation, or direct translation, is the rendering of text from one language to another "word-for-word" rather than conveying the sense of the original...
, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text - Literal legal interpretations also referred to as Strict constructionismStrict constructionismIn the United States, Strict constructionism refers to a particular legal philosophy of judicial interpretation that limits or restricts judicial interpretation. The phrase is also commonly used more loosely as a generic term for conservatism among the judiciary.- Strict sense of the term :Strict...
and the literal or plain meaning rulePlain Meaning RuleThe Plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts... - Terminal symbolTerminal and nonterminal symbolsIn computer science, terminal and nonterminal symbols are the lexical elements used in specifying the production rules that constitute a formal grammar...
in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars - Literal (mathematical logic)Literal (mathematical logic)In mathematical logic, a literal is an atomic formula or its negation.The definition mostly appears in proof theory , e.g...
, an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions - Literal (computer programming), a notation for representing a value within programming language source code
- Literal (magazine), a quarterly bilingual magazine
- A typographical errorTypographical errorA typographical error is a mistake made in, originally, the manual type-setting of printed material, or more recently, the typing process. The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but usually excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors...
, normally to one letter or number - A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compressionData compressionIn computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....