Literal
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- Literal string or character string is a data type in programming languages to represent text.
- Literal in programming, is a notation for specifying a constant value.
- Literal in logical expressionss is a propositional variable or its negation.
- Literal in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars is a synonym of terminal symbol (which is used in the formal language "literally", rather than generates a chain of substitutions).
- Literal in data compression is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.
- Literal translation adheres as closely as possible to the forms of a source language text
- Literalism in religion and philosophy is the adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.