Symbology (disambiguation)

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Symbology concerns the study of symbols.

Symbology may also refer to:

Academics

• Semiotics, study of signs and symbols
• Iconography, branch of art history which studies images
• Symbolic system, used in the field of anthropology, sociology, and psychology to refer to a system of interconnected symbolic meanings
• Symbolic anthropology, diverse set of approaches within cultural anthropology that view culture as a symbolic system that arises primarily from human interpretations of the world
• Symbolism (disambiguation), use of symbols to represent ideas and emotions

Entertainment

• Symbology, a players special ability in the Star Ocean: Till the End of Time video game
• Symbology, a fictional academic discipline of which the character Robert Langdon is a professor
• A word a detective uses in the film The Boondock Saints in place of symbolism; he is berated by Willem DaFoe's character for use of this word

Other uses

• Symbol (programming)
• Cartography and GIS, the set of conventions, rules, or encoding systems that define how geographic features are represented with symbols on a map.
• Military symbology, APP-6A, Military Symbols for Land Based Systems, NATO standardization agreement
• Engineering, Use of symbols to denote equipment, services, pipelines, boundaries and features.
• Barcode, optical machine-readable representation of data