adjective
definition
Pertaining to a symbol.
definition
Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
example
a symbolic gesture
Examples of symbolic in a Sentence
There are several symbolic acts descriptive of the siege.
It will be shown later that all invariants, single or simultaneous, are expressible in terms of symbolic products.
Symbolic Identities.- For the purpose of manipulating symbolic expressions it is necessary to be in possession of certain simple identities which connect certain symbolic products.
Such a symbolic product, if its does not vanish identically, denotes an invariant or a covariant, according as factors az, bz, cz,...
We cannot even outline here the process of selection by which the symbolic meanings now stereotyped in the Roman Pontifical were arrived at.
Given any propositions involving any number of terms, Boole showed how, by the purely symbolic treatment of the premises, to draw any conclusion logically contained in those premises.
Early in 1886 he struck the public taste with precision in his wild symbolic tale of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Stroh, from a knowledge of the results, was able to verify and extend the results by the symbolic method.
A separation is the symbolic representation of a product of monomial symmetric functions.
The identities are, in particular, of service in reducing symbolic products to standard forms. A symbolical expression may be always so transformed that the power of any determinant factor (ab) is even.
The waratah or native tulip, the magnificent flowering head of which, with the kangaroo, is symbolic of the country, is one of the Proteaceae.
Two methods of treatment have been carried on in parallel lines, the unsymbolic and the symbolic; both of these originated with Cayley, but he with Sylvester and the English school have in the main confined themselves to the former, whilst Aronhold, Clebsch, Gordan, and the continental schools have principally restricted themselves to the latter.
It is thus possible to study simultaneously all the theories which depend upon operations of the group. Symbolic Representation of Symmetric Functions.-Denote the s 8 s elementar symmetric function a s by al a 2 a3 ...at pleasure; then, Y y si,, si,...
If we restrict ourselves to this set of symbols we can uniquely pass from a product of real coefficients to the symbolic representations of such product, but we cannot, uniquely, from the symbols recover the real form, This is clear because we can write n-1 n-2 2 2n-3 3 a1a2 =a l a 2, a 1 a 2 = a 1 a2 while the same product of umbrae arises from n n-3 3 2n-3 3 aoa 3 = a l .a a 2 = a a 2 .
The loculi were intact and the epitaphs still in their places, so that " they form a kind of museum, in which the development, the formulae, and the symbolic figures of Christian epigraphy, from its origin to the end of the 3rd or 4th century, can be notified and contemplated, not in artificial specimens as in the Lateran, but in the genuine and living reality of their original condition."
It is clear from what has been said above that the liturgical vestments possessed originally no mystic symbolic meaning whatever; it was equally certain that, as their origins were forgotten, they would develop such a symbolic meaning.
Friendship bracelets are symbolic jewelry pieces you make yourself.
Still more original and remarkable, however, was that part of his system, fully stated in his Laws of Thought, which formed a general symbolic method of logical inference.
The Sun Stone is a symbolic phallus on the physical level.
Its function could determine the meaning of the symbols, since the most ancient Immortal writing is based on a complex system of symbolic context.
After a hiatus of fifty years, France had finally allowed the US to build a small, largely symbolic, NATO base.
Morris rejects any symbolic meaning to the number of fish caught, believing there is no actual evidence to support the view.
A young girl takes a trip through a metaphorical zoo gathering animals symbolic of her negative thoughts.
It contains a film of a complete Symbolic Modeling session with on-screen annotation.
Typical assembler directives tell the assembler where to locate a program and data in memory and equate symbolic names to actual values.
Apart from Forth, the system ROM has a symbolic assembler enabling you to write machine code directly on the board.
Others sported red berets, symbolic of the governing Fifth Republic Movement party.
The symbolic transformation from old man to young man represents the continuity of proletarian struggle in the post-modern age blah blah blah!
It had no symbolic significance, just bothersome disjointed sequences that lacked a relevant theme.
A great catafalque had been built, housing a symbolic coffin.
My tendency to get lost when trying to follow a mass of symbolic computations has long haunted me.
Such slabs are often decorated with carved motifs including crosses and various symbolic or purely decorative elements.
This hugely symbolic event was arguably a ritual act of public desecration which transgressed the most sacred site of communist public space.
The shield incorporates elements symbolic of the three original wards constituted in 1879.
It's the symbolic representation of a myth, a graphic depiction of something utterly abstract yet elemental.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
The white ermine is meant to be symbolic of chastity.
On systems that don't support symbolic links, produces a fatal error at run time.
Also present in the show are some re-worked forms that he created in the 1980's when he first became involved with symbolic figuration.
It relies heavily on the use of symbolic representations and deduction to apply quantum mechanics to a variety of situations.
Explore the original story using mime, music, symbolic movement.
Making people miss lectures has some symbolic value, making them contract mumps has none whatsoever.
This is yet another symbolic feature, the triad asking the percipient to join them to form a quaternity.
This symbolic role functioned relative to notions of social organization, delineating or invoking the fundamental limits of social praxis.
And avoid the potential infinite regress of symbolic meaning by being fully grounded in the real world.
Abraham is a symbolic " returner " from " exile ", given a promise of land by the Persian shah.
The ribbons were personally designed by King George VI and all have symbolic significance.
It will focus in particular on functionalism, Marxism, symbolic interactionism, figurational sociology and feminism.
The slippery finger may be less impressive than the metal speculum, but it is no less significant as an instrument of symbolic domination.
President Armando Guebuza administered the first doses of the vaccine in the Maputo suburb of Mavalane as the symbolic launch of the campaign.