Literal

a.	1.	According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. - Tyndale.
	2.	Following the letter or exact words; not free. A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. - Hooker.
	3.	Consisting of, or expressed by, letters. The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. - Johnson.
	4.	Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; - applied to persons. Literal contract (Law) a contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. Literal equation (Math.) an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters; - distinguished from a numerical equation. - Bouvier.
n.	1.	Literal meaning.

Noun	1.	literal - a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind Synonyms: erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error
Adj.	1.	literal - being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" Synonyms: actual, genuine, real
	2.	literal - without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal translation of the scene before him"
	3.	literal - limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation" Antonyms: figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
	4.	literal - lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style" Synonyms: unembellished, plain
	5.	literal - of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple" Synonyms: pure and simple
	6.	literal - (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original; "literal translation of the article"; "an awkward word-for-word translation" Synonyms: word-for-word

(programming)

literal - A constant made available to a process, by inclusion in the executable text. Most modern systems do not allow texts to modify themselves during execution, so literals are indeed constant; their value is written at compile-time and is read-only at run time. In contrast, values placed in variables or files and accessed by the process via a symbolic name, can be changed during execution. This may be an asset. For example, messages can be given in a choice of languages by placing the translation in a file. Literals are used when such modification is not desired. The name of the file mentioned above (not its content), or a physical constant such as 3.14159, might be coded as a literal. Literals can be accessed quickly, a potential advantage of their use.

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