Symbol (disambiguation) explained
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 at a time in digital communications
- Symbol (programming), a primitive data type in many programming languages used to name variables and functions
- Symbol (typeface), a font designed by Aldo Novarese (1982), one of the four standard PostScript fonts
- Debug symbol, debugging information used to troubleshoot computer programs, analyze memory dumps
- Unicode character, symbols which can be represented and displayed with standard code numbers
Film and television
- Symbol (film), a movie by Hitoshi Matsumoto
- Symbol (TV series), a TV series that aired on Disney Channel from 1984 to 1991
Logic
Music
Theology
- Creed, a statement of shared beliefs of a religious community
- Nicene Creed or Symbolum Nicaenum, the profession of faith or creed that is most widely used in Christian liturgy
Other uses
- Symbol (chemistry), an abbreviation that identifies a chemical element
- Symbol (semiotics), a sign that signifies through arbitrary social convention
- Symbol (mathematics)
- Symbol (metric system), a representation of a metric unit independent of language
- Symbol (number theory), various generalizations of the Legendre symbol
- Symbol, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States
- Ticker symbol, an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock
- Symbol Technologies, an AIDC company based in Holtsville, New York, United States
- Casablanca Conference codenamed SYMBOL, the conference to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II
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