A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
In long jump, javelin and similar events, little mark alongside the runway which helps the athlete to set their steps just right for their performance.
Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
The intension and extension of a word
A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics