Literal

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Literal can mean:

Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense
Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text
Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars
any notation for representing a value within programming language source code; for example, a string literal
a chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression
an adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism
an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expressions