Look up symbology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Symbology may refer to:

[edit] Academics

• Semiotics, study of signs and symbols
• Iconography, branch of art history which studies images
• Symbolic system, used in the field of anthropology, sociology, and psychology to refer to a system of interconnected symbolic meanings
• Symbolic anthropology, diverse set of approaches within cultural anthropology that view culture as a symbolic system that arises primarily from human interpretations of the world
• Symbolism, use of symbols to represent ideas and emotions

[edit] Entertainment

• Symbology, type of magic in the Star Ocean: Till the End of Time video game
• Symbology, academic discipline of which the character Robert Langdon is a professor in the writings of 21st century American author Dan Brown. Brown's use of "symbology" does not exist as an academic discipline in Universities. The study of symbols falls under the pervue of the lesser known Semiotics departments.

[edit] Other uses

• Military symbology, APP-6A, Military Symbols for Land Based Systems, NATO standardization agreement
• Barcode, optical machine-readable representation of data

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.