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  • 21Literal Magazine — Infobox Magazine title = Literal Magazine editor = Rose Mary Salum editor title = Founder Director category = Academic journals frequency = Quarterly firstdate = 2004 country = flag|United States flag|Mexico flag|Canada language = English Spanish …

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  • 22literal — 1. adjective a) Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical. The literal translation is “h …

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  • 23Literal (computer programming) — In computer science, a literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code. Almost all programming languages have notations for atomic values such as integers, floating point numbers, strings, and booleans; some also have… …

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  • 24literal — lit•er•al [[t]ˈlɪt ər əl[/t]] adj. 1) in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of a word or words; not figurative or metaphorical 2) following the words of the original very closely and exactly: a literal… …

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  • 25Not Afraid — For the Stephanie Smith album, see Not Afraid (album). Not Afraid …

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  • 26literal — [ˈlɪt(ə)rəl] adj 1) the literal meaning of a word is its most basic meaning See: figurative 2) a literal translation is one in which each word is translated separately in a way that does not sound natural …

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  • 27Not Quite Human — For the film, see Not Quite Human (film). Not Quite Human is the name of a series of young adult novels by Seth McEvoy about a widower scientist, Dr. Jonas Carson, whose lifetime work was to create an android. Dr. Carson names the android Chip.… …

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  • 28literal — adjective 1》 taking words in their usual or most basic sense; not figurative.     ↘informal absolute: fifteen years of literal hell. 2》 (of a translation) representing the exact words of the original text.     ↘free from distortion. 3》 lacking… …

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  • 29literal construction — A construction, usually narrow, according to the letter or the word rather than according to the intention of the parties as gathered from the entire context. Bear v Millikin Trust Co. 336 Ill 366, 168 NE 349, 73 ALR 173; 16 Am J2d Const L § 71.… …

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  • 30literal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. verbatim, wordforword, exact, prosaic. See meaning. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Word for word] Syn. verbatim, literatim (Latin), verbal, written, natural, usual, ordinary, apparent, real, not… …

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