In Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science
- Symbolic computation, an other name for computer algebra, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
- Symbolic logic, the use of symbols for logical operations in logic and mathematics
- Symbolic execution, a method for program analysis
- Symbolic link, a special type of file in a computer memory storage system
- Symbolic dynamics, a method for modeling dynamical systems
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