Used in a Sentence

symbology

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for symbology.

Editorial note

She's a structural anthropologist who posits these religious taboos as extensions of the symbology dominant at the time.

Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(uncountable) The study or use of symbols.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of symbology gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) The study or use of symbols.

noun

(countable) An encoding scheme, particularly for barcodes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for symbology.

noun

(uncountable) The study or use of symbols.

noun

(countable) An encoding scheme, particularly for barcodes.

Example sentences

1

She's a structural anthropologist who posits these religious taboos as extensions of the symbology dominant at the time.

2

Just use Unicode, and a programming language that uses the full power of Unicode symbology in its syntax.

3

This also means moving away from extreme levels of detail in favor of big, bold symbology - whittle down to the basic symbol and use that.

4

If you need a tell, glimpse at late Modernist aesthetics that sought to separate symbology from it.

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If anything, the aesthetics of a culture (and important symbology) needs to be emancipated from the late Modernist industrial complex.

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It is frequently framed as a presupposition of zero functional role of aesthetics and cultural symbology.

7

I have a friend who's an artist, and he loves putting random weird things or vague symbology that doesn't particularly mean anything it his pictures.

8

Not only is the data more accurate, it uses consistent and easy to differentiate symbology.

9

This new symbology (glyph library) will be the standard pedagogical language across the world, and the normal interface language for all software.

10

I think language and symbology is at the core of why they are so impenetrable.

11

To store ideas that can be accurately represented with discrete symbology.

12

I would argue no, because those frescos are littered with deep symbology and meaning that are being assembled in one work.

Quote examples

1

Except no way are we putting "multi-symbology" on the front page of HN.

2

Again, there is no “visual” realm that is not steeped in vernacular; cliche, symbology, context, etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use symbology in a sentence?

She's a structural anthropologist who posits these religious taboos as extensions of the symbology dominant at the time.

What does symbology mean?

(uncountable) The study or use of symbols.

What part of speech is symbology?

symbology is commonly used as noun.