Symbolic may refer to:
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Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different conc ...
, something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity
Mathematics, logic, and computing
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Symbolic computation
In mathematics and computer science, computer algebra, also called symbolic computation or algebraic computation, is a scientific area that refers to the study and development of algorithms and software for manipulating mathematical expressions ...
, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
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Symbolic dynamics In mathematics, symbolic dynamics is the practice of modeling a topological or smooth dynamical system by a discrete space consisting of infinite sequences of abstract symbols, each of which corresponds to a state of the system, with the dynamics (e ...
, a method for modeling dynamical systems by a discrete space consisting of infinite sequences of abstract symbols
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Symbolic execution In computer science, symbolic execution (also symbolic evaluation or symbex) is a means of analyzing a program to determine what inputs cause each part of a program to execute. An interpreter follows the program, assuming symbolic values for inp ...
, the analysis of computer programs by tracking symbolic rather than actual values
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Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto.
Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating system ...
, a special type of file in a computer memory storage system
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Symbolic logic
Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and recursion theory. Research in mathematical logic commonly addresses the mathematical properties of formal ...
, the use of symbols for logical operations in logic and mathematics
Music
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''Symbolic'' (Death album), a 1995 album by the band Death
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''Symbolic'' (Voodoo Glow Skulls album), a 2000 album by the band Voodoo Glow Skulls
Social sciences
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Symbolic anthropology
Symbolic anthropology or, more broadly, symbolic and interpretive anthropology, is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be used to gain a better understanding of a particular society. According to Clifford Geertz, " lieving, w ...
, the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society
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Symbolic capital
In sociology and anthropology, symbolic capital can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and serves as value that one holds within a culture. A war hero, for example, may have ...
, the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition in sociology and anthropology
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Symbolic interaction
Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to particular effects of communication and interaction in people to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence w ...
, a system of interaction in sociology
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Symbolic system
In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules.
The alphabet of a formal language consists of sym ...
, a structured system of symbols in anthropology, sociology and psychology
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The Symbolic
The Symbolic (or Symbolic Order of the Borromean knot) is the order in the unconscious that gives rise to subjectivity and bridges intersubjectivity between two subjects; an example is Jacques Lacan's idea of desire as the desire of the Other, ...
or Symbolic Order, Jacques Lacan's attempt to contrast with The Imaginary and The Real in psychoanalysis
See also
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Symbol (disambiguation)
A symbol is something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity.
Symbol may also refer to:
Computing
* Symbol (computing), a data structure used by a language translator
* Symbol (data), the smallest amount of data transmitted a ...
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Symbolism (disambiguation)
Symbolism or symbolist may refer to:
Arts
* Symbolism (arts), a 19th-century movement rejecting Realism
** Symbolist movement in Romania, symbolist literature and visual arts in Romania during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
** Russian sy ...
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Symbolic representation (disambiguation) Symbolic representation may refer to:
* Symbol, an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, belief, action, or material entity
* Symbolism (disambiguation), various meanings in art, religion, and science
* Symbolic linguistic repres ...
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