denotation

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˌdiː.noʊˈteɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes countable,uncountable
  2. The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated. countable,uncountable
    — The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.
  3. The intension and extension of a word countable,uncountable
  4. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol countable,uncountable
  5. Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics countable,uncountable
  6. A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor. countable,uncountable

词形变化

denotations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
denotational denotative
相关词
connotation

词源

From Late Latin dēnotātiō, from Latin dēnotāre (“to denote, mark out”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns of action), from dē- (“completely”) + notāre (“to mark”); equivalent to denote + -ation.
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