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Literal may refer to: * Interpretation of legal concepts: **
Strict constructionism In the United States, strict constructionism is a particular legal philosophy of judicial interpretation that limits or restricts such interpretation only to the exact wording of the law (namely the Constitution). Strict sense of the term ...
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plain meaning rule The plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The other two are the "mischief rule" and the " golden rule". The plain meaning rule dictates that ...
(a.k.a. "literal rule") *
Literal (mathematical logic) In mathematical logic, a literal is an atomic formula (also known as an atom or prime formula) or its negation. The definition mostly appears in proof theory (of classical logic), e.g. in conjunctive normal form and the method of resolution. Liter ...
, certain logical roles taken by propositions *
Literal (computer programming) In computer science, a literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating-point numbers, and strings, and usually for booleans and cha ...
, a fixed value in a program's source code *
Biblical literalism Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical hermeneutics, biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition of wikt:literalism, literalism: "adherence to the exact letter ...
* Titled works: ** ''Literal'' (magazine) ** Three-issue series ''The Literals'', in ''Fables'' comics franchise


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Literal and figurative language Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. *Literal language uses words exactly according to their conventionally accepted meanings or denotation ...
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Literal translation Literal translation, direct translation or word-for-word translation, is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately, without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. In Translation studies, trans ...
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Literalism (disambiguation) Literalism may refer to: *Biblical literalism, a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation *Qur'anic literalism, see Bi-la kaifa *The principle of aiming at a literal translation Literal translation, direct ...
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Littoral (disambiguation) Littoral zone is an area near the coastline of a body of water. Littoral or Litoral may also refer to: Geography Current entities *Littoral (Benin), a department of Benin * Litoral (Bolivia), a province of Oruro Department, Bolivia *Litoral (Equa ...
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Literally ''Literally'' is an English adverb. It has been controversially used as an intensifier for figurative statements. History The first known use of the word ''literally'' was in the 15th century, or the 1530s, when it was used in the sense of "in ...
'', English adverb {{disambiguation