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symbolic language

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symbolic language
(1) A programming language that uses symbols, or mnemonics, for expressing operations and operands. All modern programming languages are symbolic languages.

(2) A language that manipulates symbols rather than numbers. See list processing.
symbolic language [sim′bäl·ik ′laŋ·gwij]
(computer science)
A language which expresses addresses and operation codes of instructions in symbols convenient to humans rather than in machine language.
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Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with emblems, pictures, and commandments of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature; and the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of low and high, honest and base, disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
It would serve, he said to himself, as a symbolic language to keep him in communion with Nature.
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