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The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
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The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
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The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.
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The intension and extension of a word
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Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
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Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
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(media studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.