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- Literal (from Latin litteralis, from littera, letter); taken in a non-figurative sense. The attitude of a literalist, a person who interprets an expression literally, is called literalism. See literal and figurative language.
- Literal translation adheres as closely as possible to the forms of a source language text
- Literal in computer programming languages may be a notation for specifying a constant value, or may be another name for a string of characters being used to represent text, rather than some other datatype.
- Literal in logical expressions is an elementary proposition 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 generating a chain of substitutions).
- Literal in data compression is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.
- Literalism in religion and philosophy is the adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.