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Literal

Literal string or character string is a data type in programming languages to represent text.
Literal in programming, is a notation for specifying a constant value.
Literal in logical expressions is an elementary proposition or its negation.
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.
Literal translation adheres as closely as possible to the forms of a source language text
Literalism in religion and philosophy is the adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.

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