Literal

Literal may refer to:
*Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense
*Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text
*Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars
*any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, a string literal
*a chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression
*an adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism
*an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions
*Literalist, the practice of being a literal person

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