In linguistics and philosophy, the denotation of a word or expression is its strictly literal meaning. For instance, the English word "warm" denotes the...

In computer science, denotational semantics (initially known as mathematical semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics) is an approach of formalizing the meanings...

In semiotics, denotation is the surface or the literal meaning, the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary. Drawing from the original word or...

carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative...

sense-reference distinction is commonly confused with that between connotation and denotation, which originates with John Stuart Mill. According to Mill, a common term...

concepts can apply to photography as well. Denotation refers to the meaning hidden in symbols or images. A denotation is "what we see" in the picture or what...

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, which is the central borough of New...

The denotational semantics of the Actor model is the subject of denotational domain theory for Actors. The historical development of this subject is recounted...

of Denotation: Individual Languages". SIL International. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014. "Scope of Denotation: Dialects"...

The Baltic Sea Region, alternatively the Baltic Rim countries (or simply the Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries/states, refers to the general area...

Denotational 1: Primary denotation, for example "head" (body); Denotational 2: Secondary denotation by resemblance with other denotation: "head" (ship); Connotational...

belong to three major classes: Denotational semantics, whereby each phrase in the language is interpreted as a denotation, i.e. a conceptual meaning that...

descriptions raise some difficult questions about the law of excluded middle, denotation, modality, and mental content. As France is currently a republic, it has...

particular type of arbitrary denotation. Denotation and exemplification are both types of reference. Goodman calls denotation the "core of representation...

quotation »A» U+00BB (187) » Alternative primary level quotation – A U+2013 (8211) – Alternative denotation at the beginning of quoted speech...

same meaning share a seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and...

early Islamic times, the term "Khurassan" frequently had a much wider denotation, covering also parts of what are now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan...

ambiguous: compare Manchester United are rich beyond my wildest dreams. Denotation is the relation existing between a lexical item and a set of potential...

tone, and other aspects of communication that are not directly spoken. Denotation tends to be attributed to low-context culture. In low-context cultures...

In genetics, chromosome translocation is a phenomenon that results in unusual rearrangement of chromosomes. This includes balanced and unbalanced translocation...

Bundesstraße (German for "federal highway"), abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways. Germany's Bundesstraßen network...

significant differences in sound to potential (correct) differential denotation. The Saussurean sign exists only at the level of the synchronic system...

In propositional logic, tautological consequence is a strict form of logical consequence in which the tautologousness of a proposition is preserved from...

concepts, or referents a term refers to can be defined. They give meaning or denotation to a term. An intensional definition gives meaning to a term by specifying...

"tagged-signal" model can be used to provide a common framework for defining the denotational semantics of a variety of different models of concurrency, while Nielsen...

uses ISO 639-2/T. The codes in ISO 639-2 have a variety of "scopes of denotation", or types of meaning and use, some of which are described in more detail...

Nirukta. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120813812. Scharf, Peter M. (1996). The Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy: Grammar, Nyāya, and Mīmāṃsā...

ordinary denotation of a sentence is simply whatever denotation it would have in a non-alternative-based system while its focus denotation can be thought...

exploitation of the proletariat, the urban and rural workers. Further sense denotations of "bourgeois" describe ideological concepts such as "bourgeois freedom"...

they are not members of the Arab League. The linguistic and political denotation inherent in the term Arab is generally dominant over genealogical considerations...