symbolic language

noun

1. a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.

Example Sentences

More than mere numbers, it will be through the symbolic language of films themselves that change will be most discernible and meaningful, Menkes insists.

From Washington Post

The symbolic language created by Peano plays a very grand rôle in these new researches.

From Project Gutenberg

Only a genius could invent a new, symbolic language to express feelings so alien to the European.

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They are the symbolic language of his deepest thoughts and highest aspirations, while his innermost life again interprets them.

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In Revelation, chapter 5, a wonderful picture is given in symbolic language.

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This, however, would be in direct conflict with the known laws of symbolic language.

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