Symbology
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Symbology may refer to:
- Chemical symbology, specifically the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
- Symbology is the study of symbolism: semiotics/semiology, iconography, symbolic systems, or symbolic anthropology
- The study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism
- The use of symbols
- A system of symbols, myths, or archetypes
- Emergency Management and First Responder symbology, under development by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Homeland Security Working Group
- Military symbology, used to represent everything of military import during the conduct of operations; it covers a vast variety of scales, from the strategic to the tactical, and includes environmental conditions (weather symbology). Although it dates back to the Napoleonic era, the modern standards are:
- Within NATO:
- Within the U.S.:
- MIL-STD-1477C (1996)
- MIL-STD-2525 (1994)
- MIL-STD-2525A (1996)
- MIL-STD-2525B (1999)
- MIL-STD-2525C (2008)
- Various Cartographic symbologies, used to represent the geology of the underground or of the surface, ordinary cartography (road maps and the like), and marine cartography (ECDIS, piloted by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)).
- Barcodes, and varieties of barcodes
- A fictional type of magic in the Star Ocean series of video games
- A fictional academic discipline of which the character Robert Langdon is a professor in the writings of Dan Brown.
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[edit] Etymology
This composite word is formed by the Greek σύμβολον, sýmbolon, symbol, and λόγος, lógos, discourse. As such, the compound proper should be "symbol-o-logy", but the reduplicated -ol- letter pair is omitted in English, though not in Greek (συμβολολογία, symbolología).
