denotation
denotation
Definition
de·no·ta·tion (dē′nō tā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act of denoting
- the direct, explicit meaning or reference of a word or term
- an indication or sign
- Rare a distinguishing name; designation
- Logic the class of all the particular objects to which a term refers; extension
Etymology: LL denotatio
denotation
Synonyms
denotation
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- word: In Advaita, the denotation of a word is the universal.
- sentence: We now work toward a theoretical description of the denotation of the sentence as a whole.
- name: The reference and denotation of the names for these shapes are therefore reliably gap-indifferent.
Converse of object
- have: The word dentist has the denotation ' man or woman who fixes teeth ' .
- assign: The application is taken as the model that is used in assigning the denotation.
- use: One solution to this ambiguity is to use sequential denotations with lower case letters.
Adjective modifier
- same: The expressions '4 ' and ' 8/2 ' have the same denotation but express different senses, different ways of conceiving the same number.
- original: Perhaps a connotation will take the place of the original denotation.
- such: But subtle problems can arise when computers interpret such denotations as numbers and not as strings.
- pure: The photograph made a new kind of status available to the preserved document, that of pure denotation.
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