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(epigraphy) A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.

A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. Wp

Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.

Example: The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.

Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.

Example: A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.

Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.

Example: a literal equation

(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.