symbol🔊

(character or glyph) A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.

(embodiment or exemplar) A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.

(noun for referent) (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.

(dogmatic statement of faith) A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.

(crystallographic plane position) (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.

(duty for common fund) (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.

(share or allotment) (obsolete) Share; allotment.

(internal identifier in a debugger) (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.

(indivisible bit of signal in telecommunications) (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.

To symbolize.