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
Literal legal interpretations also referred to as Strict constructionism and the literal or plain meaning rule
Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars
Literal (mathematical logic), an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions
Literal (computer programming), a notation for representing a value within programming language source code
Literal (magazine), a quarterly bilingual magazine
A typographical error, normally to one letter or number
A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression

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