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Literal (from Latinlitteralis, from littera, letter); taken in a non-figurative sense. The attitude of a literalist, a person who interprets an expression literally, is called literalism. See literal and figurative language.
Literaltranslation adheres as closely as possible to the forms of a source language text
Literal in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars is a synonym of terminal symbol (which is used in the formal language "literally", rather than generates a chain of substitutions).
Literal in data compression is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.
Literalism in religion and philosophy is the adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.
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Liter: A metric measure of capacity that, by definition, is equal to the volume of a kilogram of water at 4 degrees centigrade and at standard atmospheric pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury.
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