nonliteral
IPA: nɑnɫˈɪtɝʌɫ
noun
- (programming, logic) That which is not a literal.
adjective
- Not literal.
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Examples of "nonliteral" in Sentences
- Tence is literal and the second is nonliteral.
- Nonliteral interpretations of the biblical story.
- Nonliteral precision and recall are de fined similarly.
- They lack a theory connecting the nonliteral and literal readings.
- This is helpful in cases where the same set of features can be used as part of both literal and nonliteral expressions.
- Metonymy is another kind of nonliteral language that requires detailed semantic structures in the lexicon and detailed operators for processing them.
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