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Literal

Literal may refer to:
- Literal and figurative language, taken in a non-figurative sense.
- Literal translation, the close adherence to the forms of a source language text.
- Terminal and nonterminal symbols|Terminal symbol in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars.
- Literal (mathematical logic), an elementary proposition or its negation in logical expression (mathematics)|expressions.
- Any notation for representing a value (computer science)|value within programming language source code; for example, an object literal, string literal, or function literal.
- A typographical error, normally to one letter or number.
- A chunk of input data that is represented "as is" in data compressed using data compression.
- An adherence to literal interpretation and fundamentalism.
- Literalism, the practice of being a literal person.
- Literalism, a late-20th century method of composing music using physical representations of elements of musical composition to create everything from classical orchestral pieces to apparently formless moments of noise.

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