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Symbol
* Greek font which contains symbols useful for mathematical and scientific documents.
* Identify the common symbols used in industrial wiring
  - symbols associated with basic electronic components and devices
* Most symbols live in a namespace, of which there are several.
* Some symbols are abbreviations for ancient names
  - can have different meanings to different groups
* Some symbols have inherent meaning
  - multiple meanings
  - universal meaning, like leaves for growth, hands and faces for humanity.
  * are used in Aboriginal art, to show the presence of different things. For example, a 'U' shape is the symbol for a man. Aboriginal art language in itself, communicating through beautiful patterns. This started around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago
* also appear in combined form to make compound meanings
  - have different meanings to different people
* are a feature of most organisations, societies and states around the world
  - form of shorthand
  - key factor in dream interpretation
  - necessary part of the human experience
  - shorthand way of writing the names of unuts
  - specialized, limited type of sign
  - universal language which speak directly to the unconscious
  - very important way in which our soul can grasp truth
  - akin to metaphor
* are also a common tool used to convey information to employees
  - secret sign for the faithful during times of persecution
  - an important part of building a strong institutional identity
  - an important element of any culture
  - as real as the sun
  - figures of speech which have a value in themselves, but also an additional meaning
  - fonts and can also be colored and sized
* are important in a country where one in three people are illiterate
  - vehicles to impart socio-political or spiritual information in any society
  - when defining the limits of one's property
  - important, as can be seen around the world
  - key battlefields where the Culture War is being fought
  - largely arbitrary that people, through their cultures, assign meanings
  - metaphorical in function
  - more than signs in that they participate in the reality to which they point or refer
  - much more powerful when they can be touched, felt, occasionally spoken to
  - names that software developers assign to various pieces of code
  - neutral descriptions of phenomena
  - numbers, or equations, geometric shapes, formulas or icons
  - objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
  - often objects that stand for some ideas or some other object
* are part of communication just like words and sounds
  - our everyday lives
* are powerful and they are everywhere
  - icons that convey complex messages with lasting impact
  - powerful, that's why companies spend millions designing their logos and graphics
  - silent emblems having meaning only when interpreted
  - simply things that stand for, or indicate, something else
  - strings of characters, mathematical expressions are concatenations of symbols
  - stuff of human life, all aspects of our lives
* are the basis of language
  - keys to human ideas and the tools for exchanging creative thought
* are the language of the unconscious
  - that modems use
  - only link that the common person has to the world
  - powers that resist change or open the way to creative change when it is needed
  - units of analysis
  - very source and support of life
  - visual counterpart to words in written natural languages
  - things that stand for something else
  - tiny flash movies that can be played simultaneously
* are used in Aboriginal art , to show the presence of different things
  - to remind people of their religious beliefs
  - very important in religion, especially in primal religion
  - visual, verbal and aural
* are, in fact, metaphoric events that arise through the poetic powers of the human species.
* become entities within themselves.
* can also evoke emotions
  - evoke all kinds of associations
  - express ethnic identity, religion, association, or the good taste of the time
* can have different meanings for different people
  - many meanings, whereas allegories mean only one thing
  - more than one meaning for the same person
  - very different meanings to different cultures
  - include hair and clothing styles, jewelry, or any number of gestures
  - represent either an ideology, religion or culture, and some represent all three
  - unite towns, armies, even nations
* change over time and have different meaning from one group to another.
* comes from the part of life that reflects itself, by our own thinking.
* consist of types, functions, and variables
* construct experience and enable communication, transaction, and conception.
* contain highly condensed patterns of information.
* convey meaning only when understood.
* do more than simply represent something else
  - tend to take on a life of their own
* figure prominently in the African society.
* get their meaning via correspondences to entities and categories in the world
  - power by being a visual representation of a meaning
* govern the world.
* greatly simplify the task of communication.
* have a lot to do with the way young people relate to the church
  - totally arbitrary relationship to what they represent
  - many uses
  - no power in and of themselves for either good or evil
  - power and can affect the confidence of others
* help convey meaning in stories and poems
  - replace painful images and memories
* is an image that represents or stands for something else
  - like the shadow of something, whether it holds water or the idea of truth
  - one or more symbols seperated by commas
  - value of gender
* logo designed for the purpose of identifying a product, procedure or service.
* play a large part in celebrating important events.
* play an enormous role in a wide array of social institutions and processes
  - important part of our understanding and learning about human history many years ago
* refer to variables, labels, and procedures in a program.
* represent reality
  - things, such as parks, libraries, capitals, mountains and more
* small application, which displays the entire character set.
* span the ages and are international as well, contributing to humankind's self knowledge.
* specific idea or object to represent ideas, values, or ways of life.
* take up very much less space than words.
* tend to accumulate their meanings slowly, over hundreds of years.
* turn into facts, and tend to be seen with the eyes instead of with the mind.
+ Metric system, Description: Units of measurement
  * Symbols are a shorthand way of writing the names of unuts. All the countries in the world use the same symbol for a unit, even though they might have different ways of writing out the unit name in full.
+ Religion, Traditions, Symbols:
  * Symbols are used to remind people of their religious beliefs. They are also used or worn as a sign to other people that the person belongs to a particular religion. A symbol might be something that is drawn or written, it might be a piece of clothing or jewellery, it might be a sign that a person makes with their body, or it might be a building or monument or artwork. Picture symbols for different religions are shown in the box in the introduction to this article.