Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Denotation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Denotation \De`no*ta"tion\, n. [L. denotatio: cf. F.
d['e]notation.]
The marking off or separation of anything. --Hammond.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
denotation
n : 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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