meaning of literal

1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.
2. Following the letter or exact words; not free.
3. Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
4. Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of fast; -- applied to persons.
5. Literal meaning.
6. 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.
7. a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

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