Look up Symbol or symbol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A symbol is something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity.

Symbol may also refer to:

Computing

• Symbol (computing), a data structure used by a language translator
• Symbol (data), the smallest amount of data transmitted at a time in digital communications
• Symbol (programming), a primitive data type in many programming languages used to name variables and functions
• Symbol (typeface), a font designed by Aldo Novarese (1982), one of the four standard PostScript fonts
• Debug symbol, debugging information used to troubleshoot computer programs, analyze memory dumps
• Unicode character, symbols which can be represented and displayed with standard code numbers

Film and television

• Symbol (film), a movie by Hitoshi Matsumoto
• Symbol (TV series), a TV series that aired on Disney Channel from 1984 to 1991

Logic

• Symbol (formal), a string, used in formal languages and formal systems
• Symbol grounding, the problem of how symbols acquire meaning

Music

• Symbol (album), a 2005 album by Japanese electronica musician Susumu Yokota
• Symbol (Prince album), unofficial name for his 1992 album
• Symbols (album), a 1997 album from the industrial rock band KMFDM
• Symbol (choir), a choir in Romania
• The Symbol (album), a 2007 album by Japanese girl group Shanadoo
• The Symbols, an English pop music band
• Symbol Records, a record label, part of Sue Records

Theology

• Creed, a statement of shared beliefs of a religious community
  • Nicene Creed or Symbolum Nicaenum, the profession of faith or creed that is most widely used in Christian liturgy

Other uses

• Symbol (chemistry), an abbreviation that identifies a chemical element
• Symbol (semiotics), a sign that signifies through arbitrary social convention
• Symbol (mathematics)
• Symbol (metric system), a representation of a metric unit independent of language
• Symbol (number theory), various generalizations of the Legendre symbol
• Symbol, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States
• Ticker symbol, an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock
• Symbol Technologies, an AIDC company based in Holtsville, New York, United States
• Casablanca Conference codenamed SYMBOL, the conference to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II