colophon vs symbol

colophon

noun
  • A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used. 

  • A printer's or publisher's identifying inscription or logo appearing at the front or end of a book, or the same appearing on the spine or dust jacket. 

  • In manuscripts (typically before the invention of printing), the note, usually at the end, left by the scribe who copied it, giving information on their exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, their own name. 

symbol

noun
  • An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code. 

  • A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. 

  • A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information. 

  • A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. 

  • A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

  • The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes. 

  • A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. 

verb
  • To symbolize. 

How often have the words colophon and symbol occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )