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Symbols are objects, characters, or other representations of ideas, concepts, objects, or abstractions. Symbol may also refer to:

• Symbol (formal), a string, used in formal languages, and formal systems. Symbols may have a model or a formal semantics.
• Symbol (data), the smallest amount of data transmitted at a time in digital communications
• Debug symbol, debugging information used to troubleshoot computer programs, analyze memory dumps
• Symbol (Lisp), a primitive data type of the Lisp programming language also used to name variables and functions.
• Symbol (typeface), one of the four standard PostScript fonts
• Symbol Technologies, an AIDC company based in Holtsville, New York, United States
• Symbol grounding, the problem of how symbols acquire meaning
• Casablanca Conference (1943), codenamed SYMBOL
• Simbolul, a Romanian literary magazine
• Symbol May also be used when not wishing to say the real name of something/someone, for instance calling a bath "Symbol"

In music:

• Symbol Records, a record label
• Symbols (album), 1997 album from the industrial rock band KMFDM
• Symbol (album), 2005 album by Japanese electronica musician Susumu Yokota
• Symbols (band), a Brazilian heavy metal band
• Symbol (choir), the name of a choir in Romania

In theology:

• Symbol of Nicea or Nicene Creed
• Symbol (liturgical theology), in contrast to a sign, and relevant to liturgy.

[edit] See also

• Symbolic (disambiguation)
• Symbolism
• Cymbal
• Semeiotic
• Semiotics

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