denotation
/dee-noh-tey-shuhn/US // ˌdi noʊˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌdiːnəʊˈteɪʃən) //
外延,表义,表征,外延式
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n.名词 noun
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- : the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.
- : a word that names or signifies something specific: “Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion. “Poodle” is the denotation for a certain breed of dog.
- : the act or fact of denoting; indication.
- : something that denotes; mark; symbol.
- : Logic. the class of particulars to which a term is applicable.that which is represented by a sign.
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nounexplicit meaning
Examples
You’ll find circles, as in denotations for birdies, under holes No.
To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.
The denotation of this eery evil tread of ruined lives grated terribly on Lem's highly tensioned nerves.
It is common to distinguish two aspects, meaning and denotation, such phrases as "the author of Waverley."
For if the denotation alone were relevant, any other phrase with the same denotation would give the same proposition.
A second reason is that propositions concerning "the so-and-so" are possible even when "the so-and-so" has no denotation.
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