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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, an object literal, string literal, or function literal.

★ A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression.

★ An adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.

★ Literalism, the practice of being a literal person.

★ Literalism, a late-20th century method of composing music using physical representations of elements of musical composition to create everything from classical orchestral pieces to apparently formless moments of noise.