Denotation

Definition: Denotation

Denotation

Noun

1. The class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos".

Domain	Definitions
Information	A)the set of all elements which belong to a class or to which a concept can be applied; b)the set of all objects to which the characteristic applies by a concept. Source: European Union. (references)
Language	The set of all elements which belong to a class or concept. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The logical and linguistic term denotation is the common element in several significant pairings or distinctions, namely (in chronological order)

connotation and denotation in basic semantics and literary theory;
as synonymous with reference in sense and reference in philosophy;
in denotational semantics and operational semantics in computer science.

Here denotational always attracts the extension meaning in the pair, but the other element genuinely varies. See intension for some more discussion.

Synonyms: Denotation

Synonyms: extension (n), reference (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Denotation

Specialty definitions using "denotation": standard semantics. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Logic, Bivalence and Denotation (reference) The Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy: Grammar, Nyaya, and Mimamsa (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 86 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Denotation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Denotation" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "denotation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tregim (denotement, directing, indication, narration, narrative, novelette, pointing, production, recital, recitation, Rede, relation, story, tale), simbol (badge, emblem, ensign, insignia, notation, sacrament, sign, symbol), shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), shënim (annotation, comment, denotement, designation, entry, epigram, gloss, jotting, memorandum, notation, notch, notching, note, paragraph, record, remark, writing), orientim (aspect, course, direction, orientation, steer), kuptim i saktë. (various references)

Arabic		‏معنى دلالة, ‏علامة (evidence, index, indication, learned, mark, marker, marking, pit, savant, scholar, score, seal, sign, smudge, stamp, symptom, tick, token, type), ‏اسم (name), ‏إشارة (allusion, cue, forerunner, gesture, hint, index, indication, innuendo, mark, motion, pitch, prognostic, reference, sign, signal, tip off). (various references)

Bulgarian		означаване (indication), название (appellation, denomination, denotement, name, title), значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, sense, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), знак (badge, check, ensign, indication, parallel, patent, peg, place, seal, sign, signal, symptom, type, vestige), признак (badge, indication, note, show, sign, symptom, tincture, token, vestige, warning). (various references)

Danish		denotation (extension, reference), ekstensional betydning (extension), ekstension (distraction, extension), begrebsomfang (extension). (various references)

Dutch		begripsomvang (extension). (various references)

Farsi		معنی ومفهوم , تفکیک (Detachment, Segregate, Segregation, Severance), تشخیص (Assessment, Recognition, Specification), علامت تفکیک . (various references)

Finnish		käsitteen ala (extension), ekstensio (distraction, extension). (various references)

French		dénotation. (various references)

German		Bezeichnung (acceptation, appellation, description, designating, designation, expression, indication, marking, meaning, notation, signification, term, title), Bedeutung (acceptation, bearing, concern, consequence, definition, greatness, idea, implication, importance, largeness, magnitude, meaning, moment, notability, notable, prominence, relevancy, significance, signification, value, weight, worth). (various references)

Greek		έκταση (area, cast-off, distention, distraction, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, fall, lengthiness, purview, range, reach, scope, spread, stretch, tract), ένδειξη (a primitive issued by a service-provider either 1)to invoke some procedure, clew, clue, index, indicating, indication, indication primitive, or 2)to indicate that a procedure has been invoked by the service-user at the peer service-access-point, reading, token), σημασία (acceptation, account, comprehension, consequence, idea, import, importance, magnitude, meaning, purport, purview, significance, significancy, signification), πλάτος (amplitude, extension, latitude, span, width), δήλωση (averment, bid, declaration, declarative, declarative statement, directive, markup declaration, predication, pronouncement, propitiatory, proposition, pseudo-instruction, statement). (various references)

Hebrew		ציון (designation, index, indication, marking, note, record, remark, sign, subscript). (various references)

Hungarian		megjelölés (appellation, designation, label, labelling, Mark, marker, punch-mark, tally, ticking), jelentés (application, application report, connotation, despatch, dispatch, import, meaning, memorandum, purport, report, sense, significance), jel (augury, beacon, characteristic, cue, label, logo, Mark, note, omen, par, sign, signal, symbol, token). (various references)

Indonesian		denotasi, tandas (absolutely wiped out, firm), penunjukkan (designation). (various references)

Italian		denotazione (adumbration), estensione (dilation, distraction, distribution, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, range, scope, span, spread, stretch, upgrade, upgrading). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's), 外延 (extension). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		がいえ�" (brink, extension, outer edge, outer garden), デノテーション . (various references)

Manx		cowrey (attribute, badge, beacon, brand, caret, character, check, emblem, evidence, feature, gesture, hint, indication, intimation, mark, marque, motion, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, token, trace, wealth), cowraghey (betoken, betray, betray exhibit, blotch, blotch of colour, characterization, characterize, denote, gesture, imply, log, mark, mark up, note, portend, represent, sign, signify, stamp, symbolize). (various references)

Pig Latin		enotationday

Portuguese		extensão (ambit, area, bulk, compasses, continuation, denotement, dimension, distraction, expanse, expansion, extend, extension, extensiveness, extent, largeness, latitude, length, lengthways, measure, outspread, purview, range, room, scale, scope, size, space, spread, stretch). (various references)

Romanian		semn (auspice, badge, Beck, brand, character, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, office, portent, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), notare, indicaţie (cue, direction, directive, indication, intimation), însemnare (chalk, jotting, memorandum, note, noting, score, scotch, scratch, sign, tally). (various references)

Russian		обозначение (denotement, designation, designator, naming convention, staking, symbol). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		denotacija, označavanje (signification). (various references)

Spanish		denotación (denotement, extension). (various references)

Swedish		extension (distraction, extension, file name extension), betydelse (acceptation, account, bearing, consequence, distinction, import, importance, largeness, meaning, meanings, moment, ponderosity, sense, significance, signification, weight), beteckning (denomination, designation, indication, term), begreppsomfång (extension). (various references)

Turkish		ifade (declaration, deposition, enunciation, evidence, expression, import, locution, phrase, proposition, recital, recital of fact, signification, statement, term, utterance, voice), belirtme (definition, determination, diagnosis, indication, showing, specification, ventilation), anlam (acceptation, construction, content, effect, explanation, hang, import, inference, meaning, point, purport, purview, sense, significance, significancy, signification, sound, strain, tenor), ad (appellation, denomination, designation, fame, first name, given name, moniker, name, noun, reputation, repute, substantive, title), ünvan (appellation, degree, style, superscription, title). (various references)

Ukranian		точний смисл, знак (dagger, denotement, designation, icon, ikon, index, note, office, omen, point, seal, sign, signal, token, warning), позначення (appellation, denomination, denotement). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự chứng tỏ dấu hiệu nghĩa, sự biểu thị (denotement, presentment), sự biểu hiện (denotement, rendition). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "denotation": denotations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Denotation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dennotation, denoation, denonation, denotaion, denotatiop, denotatiopn, denotion, denotoation, denottion, derotation. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "denotation" (pronounced 'De`no*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: detonation.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-o-o-t-t"
	-1 letter: intonated.
	-2 letters: anointed, antidote, antinode, donation, dotation, intonate, noontide, notation, tetanoid.
	-3 letters: enation, intoned, notated, odonate, tainted, tontine.
	-4 letters: anoint, atoned, attend, dentin, detain, donate, eonian, indent, innate, intend, intent, intone, iodate, ionone, nation, notate, notion, tanned, tenant, tendon, tinned, tinted, toited, tooted.
	-5 letters: anent, anion, anode, anted, atone, danio, datto, ditto, donna, donne, entia.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-n-n-o-o-t-t"
	+1 letter: denotations, detonations.
	+3 letters: demonstration, documentation.
	+4 letters: decontaminator, demonetization, demonstrations, disorientation, documentations.
	+5 letters: codetermination, deconcentration, decontamination, decontaminators, demonetizations, demonstrational, disorientations, documentational, intermodulation.
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