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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Denotation \De'no*ta"tion\, noun [L. denotatio: cf. F. d['e]notation.] The marking off or separation of anything. --Hammond.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
denotation
noun
1: the act of indicating or pointing out by name [syn: {indication}]
2: the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of 'satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos" [syn: {reference}, {extension}]
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