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Denotation

The logical and linguistic term denotation is the common element in several significant pairings or distinctions, namely (in chronological order)

connotation and denotation in basic semantics and literary theory;

as synonymous with reference in sense and reference in philosophy;

in denotational semantics and operational semantics[?] in computer science.

Here denotational always attracts the extensional meaning in the pair, but the other element genuinely varies. See intension for some more discussion.

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