printed symbol

Other forms: printed symbols

Definitions of printed symbol

1. noun

   a written or printed symbol
   synonyms: written symbol

   types:

   mark

   a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)

   character, grapheme, graphic symbol

   a written symbol that is used to represent speech

   phonogram

   any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word

   arrow, pointer

   a mark to indicate a direction or relation

   broad arrow

   a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing

   call mark, call number, pressmark

   a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location

   caret

   a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text

   check, check mark, tick

   a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

   allograph

   a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme

   check character

   a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission

   superior, superscript

   a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

   inferior, subscript

   a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

   ASCII character

   any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers

   diacritic, diacritical mark

   a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

   ditto, ditto mark

   a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated

   dollar mark, dollar sign

   a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars

   head, point

   a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

   ligature

   character consisting of two or more letters combined into one

   capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase

   one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

   lower-case letter, lowercase, miniscule, minuscule, small letter

   the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

   type

   printed characters

   percent sign, percentage sign

   a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100

   asterisk, star

   a star-shaped character (*) used in printing

   dagger, obelisk, obelus

   a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

   diesis, double dagger, double obelisk

   a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

   alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet

   the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

   blank, space

   a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing

   phonetic symbol

   a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound

   mathematical symbol

   a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation

   rune, runic letter

   any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages

   pictograph

   a graphic character used in picture writing

   ideogram, ideograph

   a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

   radical

   a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram

   stenograph

   a shorthand character

   punctuation, punctuation mark

   the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

   type of:

   symbol

   an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance