Literal
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Literal may refer to:
- Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense
- Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text
- Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars
- Literal (mathematical logic), an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions
- any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, a string literal
- a chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression
- an adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism
- Literalist, the practice of being a literal person
