NOUN
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
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the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
How To Use denotation In A Sentence
- The mode of reference fundamental to symbol systems is denotation: characters denote, stand for items in the field of reference.
- Iconography refers to denotations or connotations of designs or forms which may or may not be verbally expressed, and which may or may not be conscious to the users.
- In addition, trainees will be expected to know the official etymology, derivations, connotations and denotations of the term.
- Along the way, some figurative senses begin to associate themselves with ‘embed,’ but the denotations are always the same: The embedded substance is fixed, fast, surrounded, and cannot escape without extraction.
- But the question arises of whether there could possibly be a singular name that in some way manages to have the sort of denotation that would allow a singular they to refer back to it.
- All of these denotations involve philosophical complexities of absoluteness and are not relative or practical connotations.
- This is not to say that an overblown articulation lacks some denotational insight, I stress, but to say it lacks connotational impact. Archive 2010-03-01
- For some reason, "deviant" has been given a negative denotation, similar to "ignorant" that it does not connotate by current society. Swarthmore, conquering heteronormativity with pornographic chalkings.
- On a different tack, he chooses winter and spring, words that have gigantic semantic fields, with several denotational and connotational meanings, and countless metaphorical extensions. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
- The syllabus definition echoes this denotation.