symbology

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  • So much for five decades worth of propaganda She looked toward the C. E. Singer and saw an invisible speck of light, unrecognizable on the screen except for the symbology that floated along with it. —  AnalogSFF,September2007
  • Musroid symbology is extensive and peculiar; the Giant Mushroom, heart of our man's power, is fatally coveted by the evil Weedking. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
  • And the study has no exit, surveillance is constant and total, you get points for acting in character (including getting pregnant), church displays rather strange symbology, and the folks in charge seem more than a little over the top. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • Great mathematicians have frequently reiterated the truism "a good symbology is half the battle." —  IF September, 1952
  • The difficulty lies in first, mastering the symbology, then the understanding of what's being done. —  IF September, 1952
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  1. A reduced form (= Spanish simbología = Portuguese symbologia) of *symbolology, from Greek σύμβολον, a symbol, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/sɪmˈbɑlədʒi/
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