FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes

n (logic|linguistics|semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of 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.

n (philosophy|logic) The intension and extension of a word

n (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol

n (semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary

n (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics

n (context|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.