Bombardment vs Denotation - What's the difference?
bombardment | denotation |
the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
heavy artillery fire
(physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
(philosophy, logic) The intension and extension of a word
(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
(semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary
(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
As nouns the difference between bombardment and denotation
is that bombardment is the act of bombing, especially towns or cities while denotation is the act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes.bombardment
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* (English Citations of "bombardment")See also
* bombard * bombardeddenotation
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(wikipedia denotation)Noun
(en noun)- The denotations of the two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" are the same (i.e. both expressions denote the planet Venus), but their connotations are different.