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  1. (Nattiez 1990, p. 17) Peirce's theory of the sign therefore offered a powerful analysis of the signification system, its codes, and its processes of inference and learning—because the focus was often on natural or cultural context rather than linguistics, which only analyses usage in slow-time whereas human semiotic interaction in the real world often has a chaotic blur of language.
  2. Definition of signification noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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sign

1.Mathslogic
b. the positivity or negativity of a number, quantity, or expression
2. an indication, such as a scent or spoor, of the presence of an animal
3.Med any objective evidence of the presence of a disease or disorder
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sign

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  1. any direct indicator of an occurrence, e.g. the appearance of spots is a sign of measles (natural signs).
  2. any SYMBOL, including the written marks for words, which stands for – or represents – both a meaning and an external thing which ‘corresponds’ to the meaning. Taking an ‘empiricist’ view, there is a sense in which signs ‘picture’ an external reality (see EMPIRICISM).
  3. (modern LINGUISTICS and STRUCTURALISM) any signifier which signifies a concept or ‘meaning’, the signified. In this view, the relation between the SIGNIFIER and SIGNIFIED is internal to a particular language (see also LANGUE AND PAROLE, SAUSSURE).
As emphasized in SEMIOLOGY (OR SEMIOTICS), the general theory of signs, signs may take many forms, including icons (pictures), dress, conspicuous social display, etc. – thus ‘referents’ also signify – and all such signs are amenable to analysis in structural terms, i.e. as a system of ’DIFFERENCES’. Signification

Compared with sense 1 (natural signs), senses 2 and 3 involve ‘arbitrary’ rather than natural signs. Sense 2 in particular, that our ability to refer depends on internal ‘differences’, also emphasizes that linguistic structures (at least the semantic structures) are 'social’ not biological or individual in form (see also WITTGENSTEIN, FORMS OF LIFE, PARADIGM). Sense3 is also central in modern POST-EMPIRICIST and POST-STRUCTURALIST thinking in philosophy, leading to celebrations or accusations of ‘loss of reference’- see RELATIVISM, INCOMMENSURABILITY. But an emphasis on the ‘internal relations’ of sign systems need not imply lack of reference, merely that any system of reference cannot be guaranteed (see also FEYERABEND, KUHN). See also SEMANTICS, BODY LANGUAGE, METAPHOR.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Sign

a material object (phenomenon, event) that represents another object, property, or relation and is used to acquire, store, process, and transmit messages (information, knowledge).

Linguistic (belonging to a system of signs) are distinguished from nonlinguistic signs. Nonlinguistic signs are divided into copy signs, indicator signs, and symbol signs. Copy signs are reproductions, more or less similar to that which is being denoted, such as photographs, fingerprints, and, to a certain extent, pictographic writing. Indicator signs are signs associated with denoted objects as effects with causes (sometimes referred to as symptoms or indices). Symbol signs are signs that, as a result of graphic images contained in them, are used to express a particular content, frequently extremely meaningful and abstract (for example, a picture of the ancient Greek theatrical mask as a symbol for modern theater; the term “symbol” is also used as an equivalent for “sign”).

Linguistic signs do not function independently of each other. They form a system, whose rules determine the regularities of their combination (rules of grammar, or syntax in a broad sense), comprehension (rules of meaning, or significance, of a symbol), and use. If a language serves as a means of communication in society, signs entering into its structure are referred to as communicative signs. These are divided into signs of natural languages and signs of artificial sign systems (artificial languages). Signs of natural languages (individual words, expressions with proper grammatical structure, sentences) include both sound signs and the corresponding handwritten and typographic signs. Nonlinguistic signs play an auxiliary role in communication. In natural communicative languages—national languages—only rules of grammar exist in more or less explicit form; rules of meaning and use are not explicitly formulated. The development of science has led to the introduction into natural languages of special graphic signs used to abbreviate scientific concepts and propositions and methods of operating with objects being studied in science (such as systems of mathematical, astronomical, and chemical symbols). Artificial languages, whose rules (at least the rules of syntax and meaning) are explicitly formulated, are fashioned from such signs. Artificial languages are used primarily in science, where they serve not only as a means of communication between scientists and scientific bodies but as a means of obtaining new information about phenomena being studied. Signs of artificial sign systems include the signs of code systems designed for coding ordinary speech or for receding previously coded messages (for example, Morse code and codes used in formulating programs for digital computers); signs for simulating continuous processes (for example, curves representing continuous changes in certain processes); and signs from which formulas used in scientific languages (including signs of formal systems and those of logical information systems) are constructed, the most important variety of signs used in science. A distinction is generally made between signs whose significance (meaning) does not depend on other signs (so-called natural signs proper) and nonproper signs, which do not have their own signifying character but only aid in forming complex signs from simpler ones (for example, brackets).

The denotational, semantic, and expressive meanings of a sign are distinguished. A sign is said to represent a given object (or objects)—the object represented by a sign is referred to as its denotational meaning—and to express its semantic and expressive meanings. The semantic meaning (sense) of a sign serves to identify its denotational meaning— that is, to single out the object represented by a sign (although there may be signs having only a semantic meaning but not representing any object, such as the expression “mermaid”). On the other hand, there may be signs in which the semantic meaning has been reduced to a minimum. Proper nouns of natural languages are a case in point. The semantic meaning of a sign is its capacity to represent and register aspects, features, and properties of the denoted object that define the sphere of applications of the sign; it is that which man understands when perceiving or reproducing a given sign. In science the semantic meaning of a sign takes the form of a notion. In a number of fields (especially mathematics) objects represented by signs (by expressions of a corresponding scientific language) represent ideal, abstract units. The feelings and desires of man expressed by means of a given sign (in its use in a given context and in a given situation) are understood as the expressive meaning of a sign. Natural spoken language is extremely expressive, but in written scientific language most expressions (and in formal languages, all expressions) are devoid of expressive meaning. On the other hand, there are linguistic signs that strictly speaking have no meaning other than the expressive; such is the case, for example, with interjections.

The formation of mankind itself, as well as fundamental turning points in the development of science (for example, the emergence of mathematical symbolics in the 16th and 17th centuries, which sharply accelerated the progress of mathematics and its application in mechanics, astronomy, and physics; and the development of formal indexing, machine, and similar languages linked with cybernetics), has been linked to the development of the capacity to extract and process information about objects by working directly not with the objects themselves but with signs representing them. The creation of special symbolics and, especially, of systems of formulas generally reveals new potentials in science. Rationally constructed systems of signs make it possible to express in visible form interrelationships between the phenomena being studied, to achieve nonambiguity of terms, and to denote notions for which there are no verbal expressions in ordinary language. Formulas frequently express both the end result and the means of obtaining such a result. The recording of messages with the help of signs makes possible the transmission of information through technical communication channels and its diverse—mathematical, statistical, and logical—processing by means of automated devices (logical information machines and control systems, including digital computers).

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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

sign

[sīn] (communications)
In semiotics, an entity that signifies some other thing, and may be interpreted.
(mathematics)
A symbol which indicates whether a quantity is greater than zero or less than zero; the signs are often the marks + and - respectively, but other arbitrarily selected symbols are used, especially in automatic data processing.
A unit of plane angle, equal to 30° or π/6 radians.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

sign, signboard

1. A display board or surface used for directions, identification, instructions, or advertising; usually consists of lettering, pictures, diagrams, decoration, etc., often in combination, on a contrasting background surface.
2. According to OSHA: a warning of hazard, temporarily or permanently affixed or placed, at a location where a hazard exists.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

sign

A symbol that identifies a positive or negative number. In digital form, it is either a separate character or part of the byte. In ASCII, the sign is kept in a separate character typically transmitted in front of the number it represents
(+ and - is 2B and 2D in hex).
In EBCDIC, the minus sign can be stored as a separate byte (hex 60), or, more commonly, as half a byte (+ and - is C and D in hex), which is stored in the high-order bits of the least significant byte. For packed decimal, it is in the low-order bits of the least significant byte.
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1. (n.) The act of making known by signs or other means.

2. (n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.

Greek
880. aphonos -- without voice, ie speechless
... From a (as a negative particle) and phone; voiceless, ie Mute (by nature or choice);
figuratively, unmeaning -- dumb, without signification. see GREEK a. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/880.htm - 6k815. eshel -- a tamarisk tree
... grove, tree. From a root of uncertain signification; a tamarisk tree; by extension,
a grove of any kind -- grove, tree. 814, 815. eshel. 816 . ...
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3298. Yaareshyah -- a Benjamite
... Jaresiah. From an unused root of uncertain signification and Yahh; Jaareshjah, an
Israelite -- Jaresiah. see HEBREW Yahh. 3297, 3298. Yaareshyah. 3299 . ...
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2415. choter -- branch or twig, a rod
... 1), shoot (1). rod. From an unused root of uncertain signification; a twig --
rod. 2414, 2415. choter. 2416 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/2415.htm - 5k

2407. Chattush -- three Israelites
... NASB Word Usage Hattush (5). Hattush. From an unused root of uncertain signification;
Chattush, the name of four or five Israelites -- Hattush. 2406, 2407. ...
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4997. nod -- a skin bottle, skin
... bottle. Or noywd {node}; also (feminine) no)dah {no-daw'}; from an unused root of
uncertain signification; a (skin or leather) bag (for fluids) -- bottle. ...
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3850. Lod -- a city in Benjamin near Joppa
... Lod From an unused root of uncertain signification; Lod, a place in Palestine --
Lod. 3849, 3850. Lod. 3850a . Strong's Numbers.
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2651. chophen -- the hollow of the hand
... fists, both hands, handful. From an unused root of uncertain signification; a fist
(only in the dual) -- fists, (both) hands, hand(-ful). 2650, 2651. ...
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3391. yerach -- month
... month, moon. From a unused root of uncertain signification; a lunation, ie Month --
month, moon. 3390, 3391. yerach. 3392 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Whether Words are Required for the Signification of the Sacraments ...
... TREATISE ON THE SACRAMENTS (QQ -90)WHAT IS A SACRAMENT? (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether
words are required for the signification of the sacraments? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether words are required for.htm

Corollary Taken Out of Achmet, of the Signification of Hail, Fire ...
... A MEMORABLE SENTENCE, Corollary taken out of Achmet, of the signification of Hail,
Fire, and Trees, in the interpretation of Dreams. Chap. cxci. ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/corollary taken out of achmet.htm

And in the Same Way Other Objects are not Single in their ...
... Book 3 Chapter 37. And in the same way other objects are not single in
their signification? 37. And in the same way other objects ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 37 and in the.htm

That Even among their Own Worshippers the Name 'Demon' Has Never a ...
... Book IX. Chapter 19.'That Even Among Their Own Worshippers the Name 'Demon'
Has Never a Good Signification. But as some of these ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 19 that even among their.htm

Irony* (Two Articles) [*Irony Here must be Given the Signification...
... IRONY* (TWO ARTICLES) [*Irony here must be given the signification of the Greek
{eironia}, whence it is derived: dissimulation of one's own good points.]. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/irony two articles irony here.htm

Whether any Name Can be Applied to God in Its Literal Sense?
... Therefore as to the names applied to God'-viz. the perfections which they signify,
such as goodness, life and the like, and their mode of signification. ...
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Whether Irregularity Attaches to Bigamy?
... the sacraments. Now there is a defect in a sacrament when the entire
signification of the sacrament is not found therein. And the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether irregularity attaches to bigamy.htm

Whether Abstract Essential Names Can Stand for the Person?
... if we wish to express ourselves correctly, we must take into account not only the
thing which is signified, but also the mode of its signification as above ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether abstract essential names can.htm

Whether a Second Marriage is a Sacrament?
... iv, D, 42). Therefore no sacrament is conferred therein. Objection 3: Further,
signification is essential to a sacrament. But the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a second marriage is 2.htm

Whether the Sacraments are Instituted by God Alone?
... God alone. Objection 2: Further, a sacrament is a kind of sign. Now sensible
things have their own natural signification. Nor can ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the sacraments are instituted.htm

Signification (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character,
or token is intended to convey; as, the signification

Signification Definition

of words. ...
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Asherah (40 Occurrences)
... 3. Her Symbol: In Assyrian asirtu, which appears also under the forms asratu, esreti
(plural) and asru, had the further signification of 'sanctuary ...
/a/asherah.htm - 24k

Eternal (166 Occurrences)
... sometimes in the sense of unlimited duration, sometimes in the sense of a cycle
or an age, and sometimes, in later Hebrew, in the signification of world. ...
/e/eternal.htm - 46k

Praetorian (2 Occurrences)
... 4. Bearing on Paul's Captivity and Trial: The important bearing will be seen which
this signification of 'praetorium' in this passage has on the question of ...
/p/praetorian.htm - 15k

Signification

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Precious (128 Occurrences)
... STONES, PRECIOUS. ' 1. Ancient and Modern Names 2. Change of Signification of Names ...
2. Change of Signification of Names: Confusion is introduced in another way. ...
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Stones (244 Occurrences)
... STONES, PRECIOUS. ' 1. Ancient and Modern Names 2. Change of Signification of Names ...
2. Change of Signification of Names: Confusion is introduced in another way. ...
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Guard (185 Occurrences)
... 4. Bearing on Paul's Captivity and Trial: The important bearing will be seen which
this signification of 'praetorium' in this passage has on the question of ...
/g/guard.htm - 55k

Value (138 Occurrences)
... anything. 3. (n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word;
the value of a legal instrument. 4. (n.) Esteem; regard. ...
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Voices (76 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,
and none of them is without signification. (KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Kettle (2 Occurrences)
... rendered 'caldrons,' and in Job 41:20 (Hebrew 12), 'pot.' Psalm 81:6 (Hebrew 7)
(the King James Version 'pots') belongs rather to another signification of the ...
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